Creating a New Nation
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- John Rutledge
- South Carolina Delagate, Fought to keep slavery
- Amendments
- How the constitution is changed
- New Jersey Plan
- Says that all states shoudl have equal reps in congress
- Constitutional Convention
- Met in Philadelphia to make a new constitution in 1978
- Anti-Federalist
- Opposes the creation of a strong national government, a person who opposed a strong national government
- James Madison
- Wrote Bill of Rights
- Federalism
- Government dividing power between central and state governments
- Federation
- A form of government called federalism
- Framers
- A writer of the constitution
- Roger Sherman
- Proposed Great Compromise, Conn. Delagate
- Virginia Plan
- Said that the number of congressmen that each state has would be decided by population
- James Wilson
- Friend of James Madison, Penn. Delagate
- Supreme Law
- No branch was allowed to break the constitutions rules
- Ratify
- To approve or confirm
- Preamble
- The opening paragraph of the US Constitution
- Republic
- A government in which power is held by citezens who vote and elect their reps to govern country
- Ben Franklin
- Made fun of slave owners, commented on US constitution sucsess
- Checks and Balances
- Checks-Keep branches in check. Balance- No branch stronger than another
- Three-Fifths Compromise
- This said a lave was worth 3/5 of a person
- Confederation
- A government made up of a group of partners
- Robert Morris
- Pennsylvania Delagate, Payed Bills in the War
- Bill of Rights
- 1st 10 amendments
- Great Compromise
- One house of legislature should reflect a states population (House of Reps), One housld have equal reps (Senate)
- Alexander Hamilton
- Went to Kings College, Delegate