Getting a Constitution
At first,the new government was weak.A meeting was called to plan a stroger government.After a long debate,the Constitution was written.Then the states voted it into law.
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- delegates
- people sent to a meeting to represent others.
- debate
- a formal talk between people who have diffrent opinions
- crisis
- a time of great difficulty when change must come
- federal government
- the central government that unites states today it is the government in washigton d.c
- debts
- money owed
- representatives
- lawmarkers people in government elected by the voters in state to speak and vote for them
- ratified
- made into law approved formally. The states had to ratify teh Constitution before it became official.Ratification means the act of approving a major law, formally approved and invested with legal authority
- convention
- a meeting
- rebellion
- a violent challenge to an authority. A rebellion is a smaller fight than a revolution .
- articles of confederation
- the law that described the first government of the united states
- legislature
- the part of government that makes laws.in the federal governmet it is called congress.
- compromise
- a way of resolving disagreements in which each side gives up something but gains something else