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| The Three-Fifths Compromise | dealt with the issue of counting slaves as part of the population for determining a state's representation. It was decided that each slave would count as three-fifths of a free person. |
| The Great Compromise | Proposed a two-house legislature with the # of lower house seats determined by population, and the # of Senate seats equal for every state. |
| The U.S. House of Representatives | The "lower house" of Congress. Currently has 435 members, # of reps for each state varies according to population. |
| The United States Senate | The "upper house" of Congress. Each state has two senators, no matter how big or how small the state is. |
| To keep the Southern States in the nation, | Northerners agreed that the Congress could not interfere with slave trade until 1808. |
| The Constitutional Convention | took place in Philadelphia in 1787. |
| George Washington | presided over the Convention. |
| There were 55 | delegates from 12 states at the Constitutional Convention. |
| Rhode Island was the only state | that did not send a delegation. |
| Some of the small states were fearful that they would be | "swallowed up" by the large states. |
| George Mason of Virginia proposed a | bill of rights to be included in the Constitution. |
| After the Constitution was signed by the delegates in Philadelphia, | it was sent to the states for consideration. |
| The delegates agreed that the Constitution go into effect if and when | 9 out of the 13 states approved it. |
| John Locke | English philosopher that believed people have "natural rights", including rights to life,liberty, and property. |
| Baron de Montesquieu | French writer who declared that the powers of government should be separated and balanced against each other. |
| The separation of powers keeps | any one person or group from gaining too much power. |
| Federalism | sharing power between the federal and state governments, is one of the distinct features of the U.S. government. |
| "Framers of the Constitution" | is how we often refer to the men that wrote the Constitution. |
