Ch5 Vocab Flashcards
Being detailed into two parts or houses
Bicameral
A detailed written plan for government
Constitution
A group of individual state governments that unite for a common purpose
Confederation
The first constitution of the United States
Articles of confederation
Or approved
Ratified
Or laws
Ordinances
The first ordinance
Ordinance of 1785
This law set up a government for this area
Northwest ordinance
An uprising that was quickly stopped
Shays rebellion
Meetings of state delegates of 1787 leading to adoption of a new constitution
Constitutional convention
Agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation
Great compromise
Agreement providing that enslaved persons would count as three fifths of other persons in determining representation in congress
Three fifths compromise
A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and Vice President
Electoral collage
A supporter of the constitution
Federalist
A form of government in which power is divided between the federal or national government and all states
Federalism
A series of essays written of the constitution
The federalist
A person who opposed ratification of the constitution
Anti federalists
A series of steps taken to achieve something
Process
Regardless of
Despite
The opening section of the constitution
Preamble
One of the several main parts of the constitution
Article
Any change of the constitution
Amendment
The lawmaking branch of government
Legislature
The branch if government that carries out laws
Executive branch
The branch of government that interprets laws
Judicial branch
To take on or accept a role or responsibility
Assume
The idea that powers lies within the people
Popular soveringhty
A government that can do only what the people allow
Limited government
The principle that the law applies to everyone even those who govern
Rule of law
The split of authority between the legislature executive and judicial branch
Seperation of powers
A system in which each branch of government is able to check or restrain the powers of others
Checks and balances
Powers directly granted to the national government from the constitution
Chyme rated powers
Powers the constitution does not give to the federal government powers set aside for states
Reserved powers
Powers shares by the state and the federal government
Concurrent powers
A clause stating that the constitution and other laws and treaties made by the national government are the supreme law of land
Supremacy clause
Make sure of guarantee
Ensure
A region
Area
An effect
Impact
