Government Vocab Review

Enslaved people would be counted as 3/5 for purposes of representation and taxation

• Articles of Confederation

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Democracy

• Constitutional Convention

Government in which the power comes from the people and the people vote directly on all decisions

• Democracy

• Articles of Confederation

• Great Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

• Three-Fifths Compromise

First constitution of the United States that created a weak central government with no military or way to collect taxes.

• Articles of Confederation

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Democracy

• Constitutional Convention

Agreement between large and small states over representation, created a 2 house legislative branch

• Great Compromise

• Articles of Confederation

• Democracy

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

Meeting of delegates in Philadelphia that created the US Constitution

• Great Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

• Articles of Confederation

• Democracy

• Three-Fifths Compromise

Supreme law of the United States, all government officials swear an oath to uphold/protect this

• Democracy

• Articles of Confederation

• US Constitution

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Great Compromise

Government in which power comes from the people and the people elect officials to make decisions for them.

• Ratification

• Cabinet

• Amendment

• Republic

• Bill of Rights

Group that formally casts the votes from president and vice president.

• Electoral College

• Amendment

• Ratification

• Bill of Rights

• Cabinet

The action of signing or giving formal approval to a document, agreement or contract.

• Ratification

• Bill of Rights

• Amendment

• Electoral College

• Cabinet

The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution that guaranteed the people basic human rights

• Amendment

• Cabinet

• Electoral College

• Ratification

• Bill of Rights