Chapter 7 U.S. History Review

Having two separate lawmaking chambers

(a)  

To fall in value

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The freeing of individual slave persons

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proposed the Great Compromise

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wrote that government is based on a contract between people and the ruler

(a)  

Powers shared by the federal and state governments

(a)  

Checks the powers of Congress

(a)  

Powers given specifically to Congress

(a)  

Powers claimed by Congress but not directly stated in the Constitution

(a)  

Who was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention?

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson