front 1 Law | back 1 Another name for ordinance |
front 2 Amendment | back 2 A change to the Constitution |
front 3 Ratify | back 3 To accept |
front 4 Politcal Party | back 4 a group that shares similar ideas about government |
front 5 Articles of Confederation | back 5 Gave states MORE power than the national government |
front 6 American representatives at the Constituional Convention | back 6 White men who owned land |
front 7 Republic | back 7 A government that follows a constitution and whose citizens elect its leaders |
front 8 the Three-Fifths Rule | back 8 Every 5 slaves would count as 3 free people |
front 9 Federal System of Government | back 9 The states share power with the national government |
front 10 Three branches of government | back 10 Legislative, Executive, Judicial |
front 11 System of Checks and Balances | back 11 Keeps one branch of government from becoming more powerful than the other. |
front 12 Bill of Rights | back 12 Protects individual freedoms such as the freedom of speech and religion |
front 13 Alexander Hamilton | back 13 Supported manufacturing and trade |
front 14 Democratic-Republicans Federalist parties | back 14 Political parties formed by Jefferson and Hamilton |
front 15 Thomas Jefferson | back 15 Supported limiting the national government |
front 16 Alexander Hamilton | back 16 Wanted America to have a national bank. |