Ch. 7 "From Confederation to Constitution" vocab

A formal, written law

• Ratified

• Shays's Rebellion

• Dual Sovereignty

• Statute

The agreement that determined that only three-fifths of the total population of enslaved persons in a state would be counted for purposes of taxation and representation

• Three-Fifths Clause

• Supreme Court

• Electoral College

• Framers

The highest court in the United States

• Supreme Court

• Shays's Rebellion

• Checks and Balances

• Federalists

A person who supported the U.S. Constitution of 1787 as it was written during the process of ratification

• Federalists

• Ratified

• Dual Sovereignty

• Electoral College

The group that elects the U.S. president; each state receives as many electors as it has congressional representatives and senators combined

• Electoral College

• Framers

• Checks and Balances

• Shays's Rebellion

To approve formally, by vote

• Ratified

• Statute

• Dual Sovereignty

• Supreme Court

The concept that state governments have certain powers the federal government cannot overrule

• Dual Sovereignty

• Checks and Balances

• Three-Fifths Clause

• Framers

Delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention who helped shape the content and structure of the U.S. Constitution

• Framers

• Electoral College

• Shays's Rebellion

• Federalists

The 1786-1787 uprising of Massachusetts farmers in protest of high taxes

• Shays's Rebellion

• Ratified

• Supreme Court

• Statute

The system established by the U.S. Constitution that gives each of the branches of government the power to limit the power of the other two

• Checks and Balances

• Dual Sovereignty

• Three-Fifths Clause

• Electoral College