Constitional Convention
Terms
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- veto
- refuse to approve
- House of Representatives
- house of Congress in which representation is based on population
- Senate
- house of Congress in which each state has two representatives
- Articles of Confederation
- Document that set up our country's first central government
- Constitutional Convention
- Meeting at which delegates from the 13 states wrote the U.S. Constitution
- New Jersey Plan
- plan that gave small and large states an equal number of representatives
- preamble
- introduction to a document
- Cabinet
- government body made up of secretaries of departments
- legislative branch
- lawmaking branch of government
- Federalists
- supporters of the ratification of the Constitution