Vocab for Constitutional Convention

A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives

• Communism

• Republic

• Monarchy

• Tyranny

The basic principles and laws of a nation that determine the powers and duties of the government

• Territory

• Senate

• Constitution

• Population

Sharing powers between the federal and state government

• Federalism

• Odious

• Census

• Delegates

The two chambers of the Legislative Branch: House of Representatives and the Senate

• Legislative

• President

• Compromise

• Congress

Having two separate lawmaking chambers

• 1st Amendment

• Unicameral

• Constitution

• Bicameral

A government design in which powers are divided among different branches

• AOC

• Federalism

• Separation of Powers

• Convention

A settlement of a dispute by each party giving up some demands

• Compromise

• Compare

• Compose

• Contrast

a meeting

• law

• ordinance

• convention

• republic

The Great Compromise was between _______ and _______?

• parents and children

• the north and the south

• big states and small states

• Europe and North America

What was the agreed upon fraction for counting the slave population?

• 2/3rds

• 1/5ths

• 2/6ths

• 3/5ths