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That was an important decision because it gave specific powers to each branch and set up something called checks and balances

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The principle of separation of powers states that the executive, legislative, and judiciary powers of government should be divided into different branches and not concentrated in one.

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Federalism is the mixed or compound mode of government, combining a general government with regional governments in a single political system.

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Popular sovereignty, or the sovereignty of the people's rule, is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people.

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Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.

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Anti-Federalism refers to a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution.

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The supporters of the proposed Constitution called themselves "Federalists." Their adopted name implied a commitment to a loose, decentralized system of government.

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the action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid

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issue over whether congress could regulate trade, Northern States said they could, The Southern States said they couldn't, The outcome was that Congress could regulate trade, No export tax, and No limit on slave trade for 20 years.

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a compromise reached between delegates from southern states and those from northern states during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.

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The judiciary is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state.

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United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives.

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The executive is the organ exercising authority in and holding responsibility for the governance of a state.

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was an agreement that both large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution

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a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787.

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a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch.

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A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.

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A compromise was reached by stating that Congress could not prohibit the slave trade until 1808, but imported slaves could be taxed.

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Columbia is the capital city of South Carolina.

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Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787.

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Charles Pinckney was an American politician who was a signer of the United States Constitution, the 37th Governor of South Carolina, a Senator and a member of the House of Representatives

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Henry Laurens was an American merchant, slave trader, and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War.

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The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution.

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a government wherein all the attributes of sovereignty have, by usurpation, been transferred from those who had been legally invested with them to others, who, sustained by a power above the forms of law, claim to act and do really act in their stead.

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one of several extra-legal legislative bodies established in some of the Thirteen Colonies early in the American Revolution.