A person who is chosen or elected to represent a person or group

Government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has rights that the government cannot take away

Established two houses of Congress: the House of Representatives, in which representation is based on states' populations; and the Senate, in which each state has two representatives

Government that serves the will of the people

Called for a unicameral legislature in which each state would be equally represented

People are the ultimate source of government authority and of the policies that the government leaders make.

To cancel an act or law

Congress was forbidden the power to tax the export of goods from any State

An agreement at the Constitutional Convention to count a slave as three-fifths of a person when determining the population of a State

"Large state" proposal for the new constitution, calling for proportional representation in both houses of a bicameral Congress. The plan favored larger states and thus prompted smaller states to come back with their own plan for apportioning representation

Delegates who attended the Philadelphia Convention & participated in writing the U.S. Constitution

Legislative body consisting of one house

Legislative body consisting of two houses

Formal approval

Refusal to buy or use goods and services

First government of the United States that allowed few important powers to the federal government