The Constitutional Convention

A settlement where each side agrees to give up something in order to come to an agreement.

• NJ plan

• executive branch

• compromise

• Virginia plan

1787 - meeting of delegates from 12 states who wrote the constitution

• great compromise

• constitutional convention

• NJ plan

• judicial branch

Carries out enforcing the law

• legislative branch

• judicial branch

• executive branch

Sherman's plan - 2 house legislative with upper house where each state has 2 senators and lower house where representatives aer based on population.

• great compromise

• 3/5 compromise

• NJ plan

• constitutional convention

lower house of congress - each state is represented base on it's population

• 3/5 compromise

• judicial branch

• house of representatives

• senate

system of courts - responsible for interpreting the laws and making sure the laws are carried out - judges

• executive branch

• judicial branch

• legislative branch

Plan that divided government power into 3 branches - included legislative branch which had a one house legislature with one vote per state

• Virginia plan

• NJ plan

• great compromise

• 3/5 compromise

Upper house of congress - each state gets 2 senators

• judicial branch

• great compromise

• house of representatives

• senate

agreement that any state with slaves could count 3/5 of their slaves as their population when determining their representative in the house

• great compromise

• 3/5 compromise

• virginia plan

• nj plan

plan that divided the governments power into 3 branches including the legislative branch that provided a 2 house legislature where each states representation would be based on it's population

• virginia plan

• compromise

• nj plan

• house of representatives