Three Fifths Compromise - 3/5 of slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives, Proportional representation - The Constitution provides for representation in the U.S. House of Representatives and the seats in the House are apportioned based on state population according to the constitutionally mandated Census, Bicameral - having two branches, chambers, or houses, such as the United States Congress, which is made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives, Equal representation - legislature with equal votes of states, The US Senate is an example, Federalists - supporters of the proposed Constitution, favored a strong national government, Anti-Federalists - opposed the ratification of the Constitution, insisted on including the Bill of Rights in the Constitution , Sovereignty - political concept that refers to dominant power or supreme authority, James Madison - Creator of the Virginia Plan, known as the Father of the Constitution, Federalism - A federal principle or system union of states in which power is divided between a central authority and the member state authorities, Federalist Papers - collection of 85 articles written to promote the ratification of the Constitution, George Washington - elected President of the Constitutional Convention; mostly held a nonpartisan role, overseeing debates and ensuring ordermostly nonpartisan, overseeing debates between differing opinions of the convention members and ensuring order, Benjamin Franklin - senior Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention, urged for the ratification of the Constitution, Constitutional Convention - secret meeting held to decide how America was going to be governed because of the failure of the Articles of Confederation, Bill of Rights - First ten amendments to the United States Constitution, put in place to win support from the Ani-Federalists, Roger Sherman - proposed the Great Compromise,, Ratification - the act of approval of a proposed constitutional amendment by the legislatures of the States; also the process needed to approve the Constitution, Republic - state or nation in which the power rests in all the citizens entitled to vote and their elected representatives; a republic also has a President and not a king or other type of monarch,

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