Road to the Consitution

Bicameral means that the legislative branch has

• veto power over the president
• the power to raise taxes
• is a two house system
• can impeach the president

A lawmaking body

• Legislature

• Precedent

• Parliament

• Common Law

A written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments.

• Charter

• Compact

• Mercantilism

• boycott

An agreement

• Charter

• Compact

• Mercantilism

• boycott

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

• Charter

• Compact

• Mercantilism

• boycott

Refuse to buy as a punishment or protest

• Charter

• Compact

• Mercantilism

• boycott

a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

• repeal

• delegate

• Mercantilism

• Colony

To take away, or cancel

• repeal

• delegate

• Mercantilism

• Colony

representatives

• repeal

• delegate

• Mercantilism

• Colony

a group of individuals—or, in this instance, individual state governments—who band together for a common purpose. The Articles of Confederation established a system for cooperation, or “league of friendship,” among independent states.

• constitution

• confederation

• ratify

• amend