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Civics Chapter 8 Vocabulary

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match the vocabulary word to its definition

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  • the first written plan of government for the United States.
  • to agree or pledge to support someone or something
  • a meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the Constitution
  • a written plan that provides the basic framework of a government
  • a difference between two statements or situations that means they cannot both be true
  • the group established by the Constitution to elect the president and vice president.
  • the “Age of Reason” in 17th- and 18th-century Europe.
  • a basic set of ideas used to develop a larger plan
  • In the House of Representatives, representation from each state is based on state population.
  • In the Senate, each state is represented by two senators.
  • supporting ideas of freedom, change, and progress
  • a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed
  • body of a country or state
  • a region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes.
  • to formally approve a plan or an agreement. The process of approval is called ratification.
  • a country governed by elected representatives
  • a series of essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay in support of the rati
  • slaves would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state’s population
  • a strong disagreement