1. Chapter 7 Vocabulary and People to know
See It, Hear It, Say It, and Write It

2. Constitution
document stating the rules under which a government will operate

3. Executive
person who runs the government and sees that the laws are carried out

4. Economic depression
period when business activity slows, prices and wages drop, and unemployment rises

5. Daniel Shays
army veteran and Massachusetts farmer who led an uprising to protest economic conditions

6. James Madison
delegate from Virginia who took notes at the Constitutional Convention; called the Father of the Constitution

7. Judicial Branch
branch of government that consists of a system of courts to interpret the law

8. Roger Sherman
delegate from Connecticut who helped draft the Great Compromise

9. James Wilson
delegate from Pennsylvania who argued in favor of election of the legislature
Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.

10. Compromise
agreement in which each side gives up part of what it wants

11. Governor Morris
delegate responsible for writing the Preamble to our Constitution
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

12. Ratify
means to approve

13. Alexander Hamilton
supporter of the Constitution and an author of the Federalist Papers

14. John Jay
supporter of the Constitution and an author of the Federalist Papers

15. George Mason
Anti-Federalist leader who argued in favor of a bill of rights

16. Legislative
Branch of government having the power to make laws

17. Statutes
a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government

18. Judicial
Branch of government relating to judicial proceedings and the administration of the law.

19. George Washington
First president of the U.S. under the Constitution