8th Grade Chapter 5 Vocab Quiz #2

A federalist who promised that a Bill of Rights would be added to the Constitution

• James Madison

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

(1787) The plan for government proposed at Constitutional Convention in which the national government would have supreme power and a legislative branch would have two houses with representation determined by state population

• James Madison

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

A proposal to create a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states rather than representation by population; rejected at the Constitutional Convention

• James Madison

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

(1787) An agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention establishing that a states population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislature, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house

• James Madison

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

(1787) An agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention stating that only three-fifths of the slaves in a state would count when determining a states population for representation in the lower house of Congress

• James Madison

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

The idea that political authority belongs to the people

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federalism

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

U.S. system of government in which power is distributed between a central government and individual states

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federalism

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

The division of the federal government that proposes bills and passes them into laws

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federalism

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

The division of the federal government that includes the president and administrative departments; enforces the nation's laws

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federalism

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

The division of the federal government that is made up of the national courts; interprets laws, punishes criminals, and settles disputes between states

• Judicial Branch

• Checks and Balances

• Anti-Federalists

• George Mason