Chapter 7 U.S. History Review

Having two separate lawmaking chambers

To fall in value

The freeing of individual slave persons

proposed the Great Compromise

wrote that government is based on a contract between people and the ruler

Powers shared by the federal and state governments

Checks the powers of Congress

Powers given specifically to Congress

Powers claimed by Congress but not directly stated in the Constitution

Who was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention?

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson