Unit 1 chapter 2 vocab ( AP GOV AND POLOTICS )

Expressed or enumerated powers

Authority specifically granted to a branch of the government in the constitution

Articles of confederation

First agreement and unison between the 13 United States, however the articles were insufficient/written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after declared independence from Great Britain however, articles were revised into constitution after shays rebellion

New Jersey plan

Any camera legislator with each state allotted one vote

Great compromise

Two house legislative, the lower house being the House of Representatives, which is based on a state population and elected by the citizens of the state being represented the upper house being the Senate, who are selected by each state legislators to Senate per state

Bicameral

To house legislator

3/5 compromise

An agreement to count slaves is only 3/5 of a person when counting/calculating states population

Compromise of importation

Slave trade was not restricted till 1808

Separation of powers

HORIZANTAL SPREAD OF POWERS-A design of government that distributes powers across institutions to avoid making one branch to powerful on its own

Shays rebellion

A violent insurrection in Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787 due to a monetary debt crisis at the end of the American revolutionary war

Constitutional convention

A convention of delegates from all the states except Rhode Island, who met in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in May 1787 where it was decided to rid of the articles of confederation and to write a new constitution

Virginia plan

Three branch government with a bicameral legislator where larger states had more representation in both chambers lower house is elected by the people and the upper house was nominated by the state legislator and chosen by the lower house

Necessary and proper or elastic clause

Article one section 8, granting Congress necessary powers to carry out and enumerated powers

Implied powers

Supremacy clause

Federalist

Anti-federalists

Federalist NO. 51.

Written by Madison who argued people are self-interest, putting their needs above the nation, to inform the reader of the safeguards created by the convention to maintain the separate branches of government and to protect the rights of the people end of the country

Faction

Federalists NO. 10.

Brutus NO. 1

Anti-federalist paper, suspicion of power, the belief that the country is too large to be governed as a republic, and the constitution gave too much power to the national government