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Government
Terms You Should Know!!
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Articles of Confederation | The first written constitution of the United States. |
| Anti-Federalist | Those who opposed a strong central government and did not favor ratification of the U.S. Constitution. |
| Abraham Baldwin | GA signer of the U.S. Constitution; also a U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, and the first president of the University of Georgia. |
| Constitutional Convention | meeting that took place in Philadelphia from May to September 1787; original intent was to revise the Articles of Confederation, though the entire document was soon scrapped and a new constitution was written. |
| Executive Branch | governmental branch responsible for enforcing laws. |
| William Few | Georgia signer of the U.S. Constitution; was also a judge and legislator for Georgia and New York. |
| Georgia Constitution of 1777 | Georgia's first state constitution; established three branches of government and basic liberties, through the executive and judicial branch had limited powers. |
| Great Compromise | compromise between the large and small states during the Constitutional Convention; allowed for a two house legislative branches. The number of senators would be equal for each state at 2 and the number of House of Representatives decided by population. |
| House of Representatives | one of the houses of the bicameral U.S. Congress; number of representatives is based on the state's population. Today the U.S. House of Representatives is 435 members. |
| Judicial Branch | governmental branch responsible for interpreting laws. |
| Senate | one of the houses of the bicameral U.S. Congress; number of representatives is equal for all states no matter the state's population. Today the senate is made up of 100 members (2 per state). |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | a compromise made between slave and free states during the Constitutional Convention; North and South agreed that a slave would count as 3/5 of a person in a state's population. |
| Unicameral Legislature | a one house legislature. Under the Articles of Confederation the U.S. legislative branch was unicameral. |
| Virgina Plan | a plan proposed by delegates from Virgina during the Constitutional Convention that favored population-weighted representation in the U.S. legislative branch |
| New Jersey Plan | a plan proposed by delegates of smaller states during the Constitutional Convention that favored a unicameral house with each state having the same number of delegates in Congress in order to have equal representation regardless of state size |
| Federalists | those who supported a strong national government and ratification of the U.S. Constitution |
| Federalism | a system in which the national and state government share authority over the same territory and the same people |
| Electoral College | a group of representative who formally elect the president and vice president; each state has electors equal to the number of its representatives in Congress |
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