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a meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the U.S. Constitution
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a written plan that provides the basic framework of a government
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the plan of government adopted at the Constitutional Convention that established a two-house Congress. In the House of Representatives, representation from each state is based on state population. In the Senate, each state is has two senators.
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a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed
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a country governed by elected representatives
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the "Age of Reason" in 17th-and18th-century Europe. Thinkers emphasized using rational thought to discover truths about nature and society.
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a series of essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay in support of the ratification of the Constitution by the states
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the first written plan of government for the United States.
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an agreement made at the Constitutional Convention stating that enslaved persons would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state's population for representation in the House of Representatives
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a region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes. The region was given to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
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to formally approve a plan or an agreement. The process of approval is called ratification.
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the group established by the Constitution to elect the president and vice president. Voters in each state choose their electors.
