Unit 1 Resources: Foundations of American Citizenship - Deerlake ...

Name Date ClassVocabulary Activity 3The ConstitutionDIRECTIONS: Write a term from the box below in each blank in the followingparagraphs.amendment executive legislativeBill of Rights Great Compromise separation of powersConstitutional Convention judicial Three-fifths CompromiseWhen it became clear that the Articles of Confederation were not strong enough, manydelegates, including Roger Sherman, and I, James Madison, met in Philadelphia for the(1) . There I presented my plan for governing. My plan called for threebranches, the (2) , which creates the laws; the (3) ,which enforces the laws; and the (4), which interprets the laws. This(5) ensures that no one branch could become too powerful.CHAPTER 3Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.There were many areas of disagreement during the convention. One issue was whetherlegislative representation should be based on the states’ population or equal representationfor each state. Finally, we decided the upper house of Congress would have equalrepresentation while representation of the lower house would be determined by states’populations. This solution was called the (6). Then we moved on tothe question of how to count enslaved African Americans. Southern states wanted themcounted toward legislative representation. Northern states felt since slaves could not votethey should not be counted toward representation. The resolution of this question wascalled the (7) .Although many delegates thought my constitution was a good one, we recognized thatwe might need to change it in the future. We created a process by which we could add an(8) to the Constitution that would ensure a majority of the nationagreed with the new law. However, even with this option, not everyone thought my planwas a good one. They feared that the national government would become too powerful andthe United States would become a tyrannical state. One of the first changes made to theConstitution, the addition of the (9)in 1791, came out of the nationaldebate about the new Constitution.35