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=__//**Republic**//__= A **republic** is a form of government in which the people have supreme control over the government and where offices of state are elected or chosen by elected people. In modern times a common simplified definition of a republic is a government where the head of state is not a monarch.

=//__Northwest Ordinance__//= The **Northwest Ordinance** was an act of the Congress of Confederation of the United States passed July 13, 1787.On August 7, 1789, the newly created U.S Congress ongress affirmed the Ordinance with slight modifications under the Constatution. The Ordinance purported to be not merely legislation that could later be amended by Congress, but rather "the following articles shall be considered as Articles of compact between the original States and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent.

=__//**Annapolis Convention of 1786**//__= The **Annapolis Convention**was a meeting in 1786.New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia) that unanimously called for a constitutional convention. The defects that they were to remedy were those barriers that limited trade or commerce between the largely independent states under the Constatutional Convention. The convention met from September 11 to September 14, 1786.

=__//**Frederal system of Government**//__= A federal system of government is one that divides the powers of government between the national (federal) government and state and local governments. The Constitution of the United States established the federal system, also known as federalism. Under federalism, each level of government has sovereignty in some areas and shares powers in other areas. For example: both the federal and state governments have the power to tax. Only the federal government can declare war. =__//**Articals of Confederation**//__= The **Articles of Confederation** was an agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776 and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777.

= = =__//**Where did the Constatutional Convention meet?**//__= in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were meeting in the same place the Declaration of Independance had been sighned 11 years earlier.For four mounths, 55 delegates from the several states met to frame a Constitution for a federal republic that would last into "remote futurity.
 * The Constitutional Convention** took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787,

__//**3/5 Compromise**//__ The **Three-Fifths Compromise** was a compromise between Southern and Northern States reached during the Philidelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representaition purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States house of Representatives It was proposed by delegates Jaims Willson and Roger Sherman.

=__//**How many Senators dose each state get?**//__= We have 50 states and each state gets 2 senators.

=__//**Responsibilities of congress under Articals of Confederation**//__= They could not raise taxes but they could do most everything under the Articals of Confederation.

=__//**How do we figure out how many representatives each state gets?**//__= Each State gets Between 1-53 represent atives since we have 50 states.

=__//**What are the Responsabilities of each branch of government**//__= The legislatives make laws.Judicial call about the laws ( constatutional or it can be unconstatutional ).

__**The great compromise**__ reached during the Constatutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constatution.
 * Great Compromise of 1787** was an agreement that large and small states

=__//**About the 3/5 Compromise**//__= The Constitution was a document based upon compromise: between larger and smaller states, between proponents of a strong central government and those who favored strong state governments, and, above all, between northern and southern states. Of all the compromises on which the Constitution rested, perhaps the most controversial was the Three-Fifths Compromise, an agreement to count three-fifths of a state's slaves in apportioning Representatives, Presidential electors, and direct taxes.

=__//**The compromise over the slave trade**//__= An agreement during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 protecting the interests of slaveholders by forbidding Congress the power to tax the export of goods from any State, and, for 20 years, the power to act on the slave trade.

=__//**The power that the states have**//__=  The states can establish local governments, conduct elections, create corporation laws, regulate business within the state, make marriage laws, provide for public safety, establish and maintain schools, and assume other powers not delegated to the national government or prohibited to states.

=__//**The power the Frederal Government**//__= The Constitution grants the federal government the following **exclusive**, **expressed or enumerated** powers: To regulate commerce with foreign nations, between the states and with Native American Nations. To establish bankruptcy laws and try bankruptcy cases To print money and regulate its value To fix the standard of weights and measures To establish post offices and post roads To grant patents and copyrights To declare war To raise and support armies and a navy, and to call them when needed To exercise exclusive jurisdiction over the District of Columbia To make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers To make treaties and negotiate with foreign powers media type="custom" key="12301386" width="90" height="90" align="left"