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checks and balances

• system of overlapping the powers of the 3 branches to permit each branch to check actions of the others

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Great compromise

• the plan agreed to during the writing of the constituion and created a two hoiuse congress, HoR in which each state was given equal votes

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commerce clause

• established that the power to regulate foreign and interstate commerce would be a congressional power

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ratification

• formal approval of the constituion by the states

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federalist

• people who supported ratification of the constituion because they supported a strong federal on national government

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anti federalist

• people who opposed ratification of the consistution because they feared that a strong central government would endanger peoples liberties

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concurrent power

• powers held jointly by the national and state governments

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reserved powers

• power not specifaclly guaranteed th the federal government or denied to the states belong to the states and the people

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expressed powers

• powers given to congress directly setlled in the constituion

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implied powers

• power not specifaclly mentioned in the constituion

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