Constitution vocabulary

Plan created by Edmund Randolph made up of three branches, legislative-executive-judicial; representation would be based on population

• 3/5 Compromise

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

William Patterson of NJ called for a single house with equal representation for each state

• New Jersey Plan

• Checks and Balances

• Amendment

• Virginia Plan

The original constitution of the United States in 1781

• Articles of Confederation

• Bicameral

• Bill of Rights

• Constitution

Roger Sherman proposes a two house Congress; lower house based on population and the upper house had two senators each

• 3/5 Compromise

• Bicameral

• Federalism

• Great Compromise

A two house legislature, in our case, the House or Representatives and Senate

• Federalism
• Bicameral
• Checks and Balances
• Legislative

Part of government that enforces laws, President

• Legislative

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

• Congress

system that allows all branches of government to limit the powers of the other branches

• separation of powers

• federalism

• checks and balances

• republicanism

power of government is not given to one person or group

• separation of powers

• checks and balances

• enumerated powers

• individual rights

ideal that a government can only do those things that have been given to it by the people through the Constitution (hint: Magna Carta)

• limited government

• federalism

• checks and balances

• individual rights

The farmers of Massachusetts organized a rebellion under war veteran Daniel Shay, who led them to rise in protest of high taxes imposed in order to pay down national debt.

• Shay’s Rebellion

• Judicial branch

• 3/5 Compromise

• Virginia Plan (large state

  plan)