Northwest Territory | | To be approved |
Legislative | | When the presedent rejects a bill |
Republicanism | | Is the idea that for a country to thrive it's citizens had to have certain vertues |
Articles of confederation | | are the the new gov laws |
Republic | | A type of government where voters choose representitive to make laws |
Due process | | The first ten amendments of the constitution |
Vetoes | | Limits power of the three branches of government |
Separation of powers | | Is a branch of the gov. that makes laws |
Convention | | Is when the gov. appointed three judges and one governer to rule the land |
Federalists | | When both sides give a little to make peace |
Executive | | Is the sharing of power between the centeral gov. |
Founding Fathers | | Peopl who were not for a federal gov |
Judicial | | Is the group of Delegates that people vote for to elect the presedent |
Constitutional Convention | | A nick name for the delegates |
Compromise | | Is a meeting of delegates |
Ratified | | The right to fair treatment under the law |
Northwest ordinance | | Is a meeting of delegates from all 12 states |
Antifederalists | | Keeps one branch of gov from becoming too powerful |
Cabinet | | Are laws that said that there would be a national government but each states gov would have more power |
Ordinances | | To measure the boundarys of a piece of land |
Federalism | | Is the branch of the gov. that enforces the laws |
Bill of rights | | Additions to the constitution |
Shea's rebellion | | Are the violant riots because of taxing of farmers |
Surveyed | | Are people who for a federal gov |
Amendments | | Is the branch of the gov that enterprates the laws and punshes the law breakers |
Checks and balances | | The land owned by the gov that they had trouble deciding what to do with |
Electoral college | | A formal group of advisors |