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
27. Ex Post Facto: people can't be fined in prison, etc. for doing something before it was legal. Habeas Corpus: people can't be held without a charge and people have the right to know the charges. Bill of Attainder: people can't be found guilty by law without a trial. Jury Trial: the right to have a trial decided and overlooked by a jury of uninfluenced peers. 28.No laws against religion or the free practice thereof; or prohibiting the right of free speech or the press; or the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government. 30. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. 10. The three-fifths compromise called for three-fifths of a state's slaves to be counted as population. Counting all slaves as part of the population would have given southern states more representation in the House of Rep. and by not counting any slaves as part of the population would have given the northern states more representation in the House of Rep. 32. The President, Vice-President and all civil officers of the US shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. 23. Powers of the President: 1) Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces 2) Carries out laws 3) Runs th
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