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Unit 5 Vocabulary

Unit 5 Vocabulary. Ms. Werdebaugh. amend. to change or modify for the better. Anti-Federalist. a person who opposed the adoption of the United States Constitution. Bi-cameral. based on two legislative chambers . Civic virtue. compromise. settlement of differences. confederation.

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Unit 5 Vocabulary

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  1. Unit 5 Vocabulary Ms. Werdebaugh

  2. amend • to change or modify for the better

  3. Anti-Federalist • a person who opposed the adoption of the United States Constitution

  4. Bi-cameral • based on two legislative chambers

  5. Civic virtue

  6. compromise • settlement of differences

  7. confederation

  8. constitution • an established law or custom

  9. delegate • a representative to a convention or conference

  10. economic • relating to, or based on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services

  11. Equal representation

  12. Federalist • an advocate for the constitution

  13. Great Compromise 1787 • each state would be assigned a floating number of seats in the House of Representatives in proportion to its population. The House retained the power to originate all bills regarding money. All states would have two seats in the Senate

  14. grievances • a cause of distress (as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance

  15. legislature • an organized body having the authority to make laws for a political unit

  16. liberty • the power to do as one pleases

  17. monarchy • undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person

  18. New Jersey Plan • two houses of Congress, both elected with apportionment according to population.[2] The less populous states were adamantly opposed to giving most of the control of the national government to the more populous states, and so proposed an alternative plan that would have kept the one-vote-per-state representation under one legislative body from the Articles of Confederation.

  19. ordinance • a law set forth by a governmental authority

  20. political • concerned with the making as distinguished from the administration of governmental policy

  21. proportional • having the same or a constant ratio

  22. ratification • to approve

  23. representation • the action or fact of one person standing for another so as to have the rights and obligations of the person represented

  24. representative • standing or acting for another especially through delegated authority

  25. 3/5 compromise • The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.

  26. Unalienable rights

  27. Virginia Plan • 2 houses: one with members elected by the people for 3-year terms and the other composed of older leaders elected by the state legislatures for 7-year terms. Both would use population as a basis for dividing seats among the states.

  28. conclude • To bring to an end

  29. infer • to derive as a conclusion from facts

  30. significance • the quality of being important

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