1. checks and balances: system by which any one branch of government is prevented from becoming too powerful
2. Constitutional Convention: meeting of delegates discussed ways to improve Article of Convention
3. Great Compromise: Gave each state an equal vote in the upper house of legislature while granting to the lower house representation based on population
4.James Madison: Wrote most of the Virginia Plan
5. New Jersey Plan: Called for a one-house legislature while granting to the lower house of representation based on population.
6. Popular Sovereignty: The idea that political authority belongs to the people
7. 3/5 compromise: aggreement that slaves would not be counted as a whole person when determining representation
8.Virginia Plan: Called for a bicameral legislature when representation in both houses based on population
9. Federalism: The sharing of power between a central government and that states it is comprised of
10. Legislative branch: responsible for proposing and passing laws.
