TCI lessons 14 & 15

the meeting called by the states in 1787 to improve the Articles of Confederation that instead wrote a new constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• cabinet

• checks and balances

• compromise

• Constitutional Convention

a group of advisors to the president, including heads of important departments in the executive branch

• Articles of Confederation

• cabinet

• checks and balances

• compromise

• Constitutional Convention

the document that set up the first government of the United States; the government had limited power

• Articles of Confederation

• cabinet

• checks and balances

• compromise

• Constitutional Convention

an agreement in which each side gives up some of what it wants

• Articles of Confederation

• cabinet

• checks and balances

• compromise

• Constitutional Convention

the system in which each branch of government limits, ir checks, the powers of the other branches

• Articles of Confederation

• cabinet

• checks and balances

• compromise

• Constitutional Convention

a document that describes how a government will work

• constitution

• impeach

• veto

to reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law, a power that belongs only to the president

• constitution

• impeach

• veto

to accuse or charge a government official, such as the presdient, with a crime or misconduct

• constitution

• impeach

• veto

the branch that makes laws

• legislative branch

• executive branch

• judicial branch

the branch that interprets laws and settles disagreements about them

• legislative branch

• executive branch

• judicial branch