Constitution
1. Government in which two levels of government shared fundamental powers. State governments were supreme in some matters, while the national government was supreme in other matters. It was designed this way to prevent one of the governments from overpowering the other.4. The Executive branch can veto bills of Congress and appoint federal judges. 5. The Legislative branch can override a presidential veto and they can impeach and remove federal judges. 6. The Judicial branch can declare acts of Congress unconstitutional and they can declare presidential actions unconstitutional. 7. The Great Compromise offered a two-house Congress to satisfy both small and big states. Each state would have equal representation in the Senate. The size of the population of each state would determine its representation in the House of Representatives. 8. The New Jersey Plan (supported by small states) proposed a single-house congress in which each state had an equal vote. It would give control of Congress to the seven smallest states if they had voted together—even though these states included only 25% of the nation’s population. 9. The Virginia Plan (supported by big states) would
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Some common words found in the essay are:
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Approximate Word count = 882
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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