| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Federalism | the sharing of power between federal state and government |
| constitution | a formal plan of government |
| republic | a goverment in which citizens rule elected represenatives |
| ordinance | a law or regulation |
| depression | a period of low economic activity and wide spread of unemployment |
| manumission | a free of some enslaved persons |
| proportional | to be the same as or corresponding |
| compromise | an agreement between two or more sides in which each side gives up something they want |
| admenment | an addition to a formal document such as the constitution |
| enlightenment | movement during the 1700s that spread the idea that knowledge,reason, and science could improve society |
| judicial branch | the branch of government including the federal court system, that interprets the nations laws |
| legislative branch | the branch of government the makes the nations laws |
| executive branch | the branch of government headed by the president that carries out the nations laws |
| Federalist | supporters of the constitution |
| checks and balances | the system in which each branch of government has a check on the other two branches so that no one branch becomes too powerful |
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