Creating the Constitution

Why did the Confederation Congress call for a Constitutional Convention?

What was the debate between North and South over counting slave populations?

How did delegates' views differ on the issue of the foreign slave trade?

Why did the framers of the Constitution create a system of checks and balances?

Did the Constitution resolve the weakness in the Articles of Confederation? (Explain minimum 5 sentences)

Press

• applying pressure to something

• news industry of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public through print media, broadcast news and the Internet

• an organization of mediums that are aimed at providing completely false information and satire

• how they make sandwiches in Cuba

a type of legislature that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers

• bicameral legislature

• unicameral legislature

• tricameral legislature

• quadcameral legislature

the government that is a controlling power over a unitary state

• Central Government

• Executive

• Legislative

• Judiciary

establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions

• National Supremacy

• Legislative

• Judiciary

• Executive

a plan giving supreme power to the central government and creating a bicameral legislature made of 2 groups, or houses, of representatives

• Virginia Plan

• Jersey Plan

• Louisiana Plan

• Rhode Island Plan