AOC to Constitutional Convention Review (2)

Pinky

• No respect for the government

• Congress couldn't raise taxes

• Weak central government

• 9/13 needed to ratify a law

Congress can't raise taxes

• Middle Finger

• Pinky

• Index Finger/Pointing Finger

• Ring Finger

Ratify

• to approve formally
• Small animals in a sewer
• To not approve

 A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government 

• Articles of Confederation
• Constitution
• Play book
• Compromise

A meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the U.S. Constitution 

• Philly meeting
• Treaty of Philadelphia
• Constitutional Convention

A law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed 

• Northwest Ordinance
• Northwest Lands
• Northwest Territory

An agreement made at the Constitutional Convention stating that enslaved persons would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state’s population for representation in the House of Representatives 

• Two-halves Compromise
• Three-fourths Compromise
• Two-fifths Compromise
• Three-fifths Compromise

The lawmaking part of government, called the legislature. To legislate is to make a law. 

• Legislative Branch
• Executive Branch
• Judicial Branch

 The part of government, consisting of the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, that interprets the laws 

• Executive Branch
• Legislative Branch
• Judicial Branch

The part of government that carries out, or executes, the laws 

• Judicial Branch
• Executive Branch
• Legislative Branch