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Social Studies

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Executive Branch   The Executive Branch is powered by the President. The President is responsible for enforcing the laws.  
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Checks and Balances   Checks and Balances are a system to make sure one branch is not to powerful and one branch does not have enough power. Example: The legislative branch has a check on judicial that senate approves federal judge.  
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Constitution   The Constitution is the laws and principles of the United States.  
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Legislative Branch   The Legislative Branch is powered by the congress( House of Representatives and The Senate) The Legislative Branch has the authority to pass laws.  
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Electoral College   The Electoral College is an indirect election where electors vote for the president by how many votes each person voted for in that state. Example: New York has 29 electoral votes which means what ever president has the most votes get the 29 votes.  
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Articles of Confederation   The Articles of Confederation was the name of the first Constitution.  
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Three-Fifths Compromise   The Three-Fifths Compromise was that slaves were 3/5's of a person in the population of a state.  
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Constitutional Convections   Was revise the Articles of Confederation. It was held in Philadelphia in 1787.  
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Virginia Plan   The Virginia Plan was a plan to write a whole new Constitution instead of revising the old one.  
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New Jersey Plan   The New Jersey Plan proposed that all states would get the same amount of representatives,so smaller states would have a fair amount.  
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Problems Under the Articles of Confederation   There were many weaknesses, Congress had many troubles with  
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