Vocab1 2/8/16 Good Afternoon 1.Get your folder 2.Have Vocabulary Out 3.Be quietly working on any missing work – Chapter One Review Guide

Vocab1 constitution a detailed, written plan for government

Vocab2 bicameral a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses

Vocab3 confederation a group of individuals or state governments

Vocab4 ratify to vote approval of

Vocab4 Ordinance of 1785 A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers and raise money. Part of the Articles of Confederation.

Vocab4 Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Defined the process by which new states could be admitted into the Union from the Northwest Territory. The ordinance forbade slavery in the territory but allowed citizens to vote on the legality of slavery once statehood had been established. The Northwest Ordinance was the most lasting measure of the national government under the Articles of Confederation

Vocab8 Constitutional Convention meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of new Constitution

Vocab9 Great Compromise agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation

Vocab10 Three-fifths Compromise agreement providing that enslaved persons would count as three-fifths of other persons in determining representation in Congress

Vocab11 Electoral College a group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president

Vocab12 Federalists supporters of the Constitution

Vocab13 federalism a form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the states

Vocab14 Anti-Federalists those who opposed ratification of the Constitution

Vocab15 process an action or a series of actions directed toward a result

Vocab16 despite in spite of

Vocab17 Preamble the opening section of the Constitution

Vocab18 legislative branch the lawmaking branch of government

Vocab19 executive branch the branch of government that carries out laws

Vocab20 judicial branch the branch of government that interprets laws

Vocab21 amendment any change in the Constitution

Vocab22 consist to be made up of

Vocab23 assume to take over a job or responsibility

Vocab24 popular sovereignty the notion that power lies with the people

Vocab25 rule of law principle that the law applies to everyone, even those who govern

Vocab26 separation of powers the split of authority among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches

Vocab27 checks and balances a system in which each branch of government is able to check, or restrain, the power of the others

Vocab28 expressed powers powers that Congress has that are specifically listed in the Constitution

Vocab29 reserved powers powers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states

Vocab30 concurrent powers powers shared by the state and federal governments

Vocab31 ensure to secure or make sure

Vocab32 assign to dole out or give as a task