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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Separation of Powers: | The idea that that power should be divided equally among three distinct branches that would be responsible for making laws, enforcing laws, and interpreting laws. |
| Checks and Balances: | Each branch would have the ability to limit the power of the other two through a series of checks and balances. |
| Executive Branch: | The Branch that carries out laws. |
| Judicial Branch: | The Branch that evaluates laws. |
| Legislative Branch: | The Branch that makes 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: | The man from Connecticut who crafted the Great Compromise. |
| Great Compromise: | He proposed a 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: | 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: | barred people who had escaped slavery in the South from living as free people in northern states. |
| Commerce Clause: | 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. |