M5,L3, Creating a Constitution

meeting held in Philadelphia to create a new constitution

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• Great Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

• judicial branch

• checks and balances

a plan creating a unicameral, or one-house, legislature

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• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• checks and balances

• federalism

a plan giving supreme power to the central government and creating a bicameral legislature made of two groups, or houses, of representatives

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• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• checks and balances

• federalism

only three-fifths of a state’s slaves were counted when deciding representation in Congress

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• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Three-fifths Compromise

• checks and balances

a plan creating a unicameral, or one-house, legislature Great Compromise an agreement that gave each state one vote in the upper house of the legislature and a number of representatives based on its population in the lower house

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• Three-fifths Compromise

• Great Compromise

• checks and balances

• Virginia plan

delegate from Virginia known as the “Father of the Constitution”

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• John Adams

• John Hancock

• James Madison

• George Washington

the idea that political power belongs to the people

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• popular sovereignty

• federalism

• checks and balances

• enlightenment

a system that keeps any branch of government from becoming too powerful

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• federalism

• checks and balances

• popular sovereignty

• Great Compromise

a system of all the national courts

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• legislative branch

• executive branch

• judicial branch

• popular sovereignty

the president and the departments that help run the government

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• legislative branch

• executive branch

• judicial branch

• popular sovereignty