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vocab q 10/19-10/22

Ms sabella

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Separation of Powers power should be divided equally among three distinct branches that would be responsible for making laws, enforcing laws, and interpreting laws
Checks and Balances the ability to limit the power so no branch would get more power than the other.
Executive Branch The Branch that carries out laws.
Judicial Branch branch evaluates laws
Legislative Branch create and pass legislation, or make laws.
Supreme Court what/who would be the head of the Judicial Branch.
Electoral College States would be granted a specific number of electors equal to their numbers of senators and representatives in Congress.
Roger Sherman combined the best ideas from both plans to craft the Great Compromise. He proposed a legislative branch with two houses.
Great Compromise the idea of having legislative branch with two houses
Three-Fifths Compromise increased the power of white voters in the South at the expense of enslaved African Americans, who were each counted as less than a full person.
Slave Importation Clause stating that Congress could not ban the importation of slaves for 20 years and that the tax on importing an enslaved person could not exceed $10 per person.
Fugitive Slave Clause clause barred people who had escaped slavery in the South from living as free people in northern states.
Commerce Clause which gave Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.”
Common Market no tax could be charged on trade between states.
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