Pre-Constitution America

to approve and make offical

• delegate

• import

• export

• ratify

a proposed plan by James Madison that favored large states, proportional representation, and a strong national government composed of three branches

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Georgia Plan

• New York Plan

a proposed plan by William Patterson that favored a one-house legislature, smaller states, equal representation, and a weak national government

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Georgia Plan

• New York Plan

change or addition to a document or plan, such as the Constitution

• ratify

• amendment

• Bill of Rights

• checks and balances

those who favored a strong national government in the late 1700s

• tariffs

• delegates

• checks and balances

• nationalists

writers and framers of the Constitution; the founders

• Founding Nationalists

• Founding Fathers

• Founding Delegates

• Founding Representatives

an opponent of the central government as defined by the constitution, against the ratification

• popular sovereignty

• federalist

• anti-federalist

• delegates

a supporter of the ratification of the Constitution

• senator

• anti-federalist

• delegate

• federalist

a system of government in which power is shared between the central (national) government and the states government

• Federalism

• Bill of Rights

• Checks and Balances

• Bill of Rights

an official representative of some group or body, like a state assembly

• delegate

• anti-federalist

• Congress

• federalist