Constitution/Constitutional Convention

Equality, freedom, sovereignty (by people, power resides with them), progress, individualism (choice), pride (patriotism)

• American Democracy

• Communism

• Limited Government

• Individual Rights

the idea of government located in one place managing an entire country

• Central government

• Federalism

• Individual Rights

• Socialism

the organization through which political authority is exercised at the state level, government of a specific state

• Federal Government

• Central Government

• State Government

• Local Government

The document which established the present federal government of the United States and outlined its powers. It can be changed through amendments.

• Magna Carta

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

Group of delegates who drafted the United States Constitution at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787.

• Framers of the Constitution

• Republicans

• Federalists

• Democrats

The meeting of state delegates in 1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the Articles of Confederation. It instead designed a new plan of government, the US Constitution.

• Second Continental Congress

• Constitutional Convention

• Battle of Saratoga

• House of Representatives

"Large state" proposal for the new constitution, calling for proportional representation in both houses of a bicameral Congress.

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Constitution

• South Carolina Plan

"Small State" proposal for the new constitution, calling for a single seat in a unicameral Congress.

• Virginia Plan

• South Carolina Plan

• Constitution

• New Jersey Plan

A legislature with only one legislative chamber

• Single Legislature

• Unicameral Legislature

• Bicameral Legislature

• House of Representatives

A legislature with two legislative chambers

• Unicameral Legislature

• Double Legislature

• Senate

• Bicameral Legislature