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1787 Northwest Ordinance

• to bring formal charges against a government officail

• government subject to the will of the people

• Created the Northwest territory

• A counter proposal that modified the articles of confederation instead of banishing them

Shay's rebellion

• Angry at the state legislatures indifference to their plight, in late august 1786, angry farmers in western massachsetts rebelled

• proposed that in one house of congress- the house of representatives- representation would be based on population

• every five enslaved persons would count as three free persons to determine both representations, and taxes

Constitutional Convention

• a counterproposal, that modified the Articles of Confederation

• a convention to balance the rights of the states with the need for a stronger government

• a group of advisers to the president

Virginia plan

• recommended scrapping the Articles of Confederation and creating a new national government with the power to make laws binding upon the states

• they complained that the constitution failed to protect basic rights

• a proposed law

New Jersey Plan

• a counterproposal, that modified the Articles of confederation instead of banishing them

• government subject to the will of the people

• a summary of the fundamental rights and privelleges guarenteed to a people against violation by the state

Connecticut Compromise

• Proposed that in one house of congress- the house of represenatives- representation would be based on population

• a convention to balance the rights of the states with the need for a stronger national government

• the following procedures established by law

Three-Fifths compromise

• political system in which power is divided between the national and state governments

• every five enslaved persons would count as three free persons to determine both representations and taxes

• government subject to the will of the people

Popular sovereignty

• the summary of the fundamental rights and privilleges guarenteed to a people against violation by state

• government subject to the will of the people

• created the northwestern territory

Federalism

• political system in which power is divided between the national and state governments

• they had a clear minority when the convention met in January 1788, they had John Hancock, and Samuel Adams right beside them

• the power the cheif executive has to reject laws passed by the legislature

seperation of powers

• a convention to balance the rights of the states with the need for a stronger national government

• a proposed law

• government in which power is divided among different branches