Law

Another name for ordinance

Amendment

A change to the Constitution

Ratify

To accept

Politcal Party

a group that shares similar ideas about government

Articles of Confederation

Gave states MORE power than the national government

American representatives at the Constituional Convention

White men who owned land

Republic

A government that follows a constitution and whose citizens elect its leaders

the Three-Fifths Rule

Every 5 slaves would count as 3 free people

Federal System of Government

The states share power with the national government

Three branches of government

Legislative, Executive, Judicial

System of Checks and Balances

Keeps one branch of government from becoming more powerful than the other.

Bill of Rights

Protects individual freedoms such as the freedom of speech and religion

Alexander Hamilton

Supported manufacturing and trade

Democratic-Republicans

Federalist parties

Political parties formed by Jefferson and Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson

Supported limiting the national government

Alexander Hamilton

Wanted America to have a national bank.