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depression a period when business activity slows, prices and wages fall, and un employment rises. executive branch branch of government that carry;s out laws. great compromise a plan at the constitutional convention that settled the differences between the large and small states james madison the best prepared delegate, was 36 years old, lived in Virginia. for month's he had been reading books on history, politics and commence. he arrived in philadelphia with a case bulging with volumes of research. he was also called the father of the constitution Ben franklin ? magna carta signed in 1215, a British document that contained two basic ideas:monarchs themselves have to obey the laws and the citizens have basic rights separation of powers principle by which the powers of government are divided among separate branches antifederalists people who opposed the constitution and a strong national government amend change