Law
Another name for ordinance
Amendment
A change to the Constitution
Ratify
To accept
Politcal Party
a group that shares similar ideas about government
Articles of Confederation
Gave states MORE power than the national government
American representatives at the Constituional Convention
White men who owned land
Republic
A government that follows a constitution and whose citizens elect its leaders
the Three-Fifths Rule
Every 5 slaves would count as 3 free people
Federal System of Government
The states share power with the national government
Three branches of government
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
System of Checks and Balances
Keeps one branch of government from becoming more powerful than the other.
Bill of Rights
Protects individual freedoms such as the freedom of speech and religion
Alexander Hamilton
Supported manufacturing and trade
Democratic-Republicans
Federalist parties
Political parties formed by Jefferson and Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Supported limiting the national government
Alexander Hamilton
Wanted America to have a national bank.