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.
Machiavelli believed in political activity should not be restricted by moral principles. He thought this because he thought it should be free from morality. He thought that politics should write its own rules and be free from morality.
