Unit 5: Creating a Nation: 3

branch that interprets the law

• judicial branch

• judicial review

• executive branch

• legislative branch

branch that enforces the law

• judicial branch

• judicial review

• executive branch

• legislative branch

branch that makes the law

• judicial branch

• judicial review

• executive branch

• legislative branch

Congress

• Senate and the House of Representatives

• makes the laws

• legislative branch

• all of the above

solution to how states would be represented in the government

• Great Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• New Hampshire Plan

• Virginia Plan

change to the Constitution

• amendment

• repeal

• ratification

• bill

America's 1st Constitution, America's constitution during the Revolution, Successes include the Land Ordinances

• Constitution of the United States of America

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Continental Congress

power to declare laws or acts unconstitutional (firmly established with Marbury v. Madison)

• Judicial Review

• Executive Pardon

• Veto

• Judge

opening statement of Constitution that outlines the goals

• Preamble

• Article I

• Introduction

• Amendment

describes the legislative branch

• Preamble

• Article I

• Article II

• Article III