Vocabulary Activity 3 - PC\|MAC
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CHAPTER 3
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Vocabulary Activity 3
The Constitution
DIRECTIONS: Write a term from the box below in each blank in the following paragraphs.
amendment Bill of Rights Constitutional Convention
executive Great Compromise judicial
legislative separation of powers Three-fifths Compromise
When it became clear that the Articles of Confederation were not strong enough, many
delegates, including Roger Sherman, and I, James Madison, met in Philadelphia for the
(1)
. There I presented my plan for governing. My plan called for three
branches, the (2)
, which creates the laws; the (3)
,
which enforces the laws; and the (4)
, which interprets the laws. This
(5)
ensures that no one branch could become too powerful.
There were many areas of disagreement during the convention. One issue was whether
legislative representation should be based on the states' population or equal representation
for each state. Finally, we decided the upper house of Congress would have equal
representation while representation of the lower house would be determined by states'
populations. This solution was called the (6)
. Then we moved on to
the question of how to count enslaved African Americans. Southern states wanted them
counted toward legislative representation. Northern states felt since slaves could not vote
they should not be counted toward representation. The resolution of this question was
called the (7)
.
Although many delegates thought my constitution was a good one, we recognized that
we might need to change it in the future. We created a process by which we could add an
(8)
to the Constitution that would ensure a majority of the nation
agreed with the new law. However, even with this option, not everyone thought my plan
was a good one. They feared that the national government would become too powerful and
the United States would become a tyrannical state. One of the first changes made to the
Constitution, the addition of the (9)
in 1791, came out of the national
debate about the new Constitution.
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