Module 6 Citizenship and the Constitution Vocabulary

a meeting held in Philadelphia at which delegates from the states wrote the Constitution

• Constitutional Convention
• political action committees
• interest groups
• draft

American statesman, he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, the fourth president of the United States, the author of some of the Federalist Papers, and is called the "father of the Constitution" for his proposals at the Constitutional Convention. He led the United States through the War of 1812.

• James Madison
• Constitutional Convention
• political action committees
• interest groups

the plan for government proposed at the Constitutional Convention in which the national government would have supreme power and a legislative branch would have two houses with representation determined by state population

• Virginia Plan
• James Madison
• Constitutional Convention
• political action committees

a proposal to create a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states rather than representation by population; rejected at the Constitutional Convention

• New Jersey Plan
• Virginia Plan
• James Madison
• Constitutional Convention

an agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention establishing that a state’s population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislature, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house of the legislature

• Great Compromise
• New Jersey Plan
• Virginia Plan
• James Madison

an agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention stating that only three-fifths of the slaves in a state would count when determining a state’s population for representation in the lower house of Congress

• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Great Compromise
• New Jersey Plan
• Virginia Plan

the idea that political authority belongs to the people

• popular sovereignty
• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Great Compromise
• New Jersey Plan

the division of the government that proposes bills and passes them into laws

• legislative branch
• popular sovereignty
• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Great Compromise

the division of the federal government that includes the president and the administrative departments; enforces the nation’s laws

• executive branch
• legislative branch
• popular sovereignty
• Three-Fifths Compromise

the division of the federal government that is made up of the national courts; interprets laws, punishes criminals, and settles disputes between states

• judicial branch
• executive branch
• legislative branch
• popular sovereignty