Constitution Vocab Review 2

the concept that state government have certain powers the federal government cannot overrule

• dual sovereignty

• federalism

• executive branch

• legislative branch

a person chosen or elected to represent a group of people

• executive branch

• delegate

• fugitive

• federalism

a provision in Article 1 granting Congress the power to make laws concerning foreign trade as well as trade among the states

• common market

• commerce clause

• dual sovereignty

• legislative branch

The system established by the US Constitution that gives each of the branches of government the power to limit the power of the other two

• checks and balances

• separation of powers

• commerce clause

• federalism

the group that elects the US president

• delegate

• federalism

• electoral college

• executive branch

a group of countries or states that allows the members to trade freely among them

• federalism

• commerce clause

• common market

• separation of powers

the support of a government where the power is shared between the central, national government and that of states

• common market

• commerce clause

• fugitive slave clause

• federalism

an agreement that determined that only three-fifths of the total population of enslaved persons in a state would be counted for purposes of taxation and representation

• slave importation clause

• fugitive slave clause

• commerce clause

• three-fifths compromise

a provision in Article 4 of the Constitution that prevented free states from emancipating enslaved workers who had escaped from their masters in other states

• fugitive slave clause

• three-fifths compromise

• federalism

• commerce

delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention who helped shape the content and structure of the US Constitution

• framers

• federalism

• delegate

• Supreme Court