Checks and balances Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
federalism
judicial branch
Virginia Plan
executive branch
Great Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
popular sovereignty
DIRECTIONS Answer cach question by writing a sentence that
contains at least one word from the word bank.
1. In what part of the government are the president and the departments that
help run the government?
2. What agreement satisfied both northerners and southerners when it came to
counting the population of a state!
3. What term is used for the sharing of power between a central government and
state governments?
4. How can citizens be sure that no one branch of government becomes too
powerful?