5.3 Creating a Constitution

meeting where delegates discussed ways to improve the Articles of the Confederation

• Constitutional Convention

• checks and balances

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• Virginia Plan

the sharing of power between a central government and the states it is comprised of

• checks and balances

• popular sovereignty

• three-fifths compromise

• great compromise

• Federalism

Virginia delegate called the Father of the Constitution.

• James Madison

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Roger Sherman

Called for a two house with representation based on population

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Checks and Balances

• Great Compromise

responsible for proposing and passing laws

• executive branch

• legislative branch

• judicial branch

called for a one house legislature in which each state had an equal number of votes

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Great Compromise

Gave each state an equal vote in the upper house of the legislature, while granting to the lower house representation based on population

• Great Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

Agreement that only part of the slave population of a state would be used when determining representation

• three- fifth compromise

• Great compromise

• James Madison

idea that political authority belongs to the people

• popular sovereignty

• federalism

• checks and balances

system by which any one branch of government is prevented from becoming too powerful

• constitutional convention

• Great Compromise

• checks and balances