-authoritarian government-a system of rule in which the government recognizes no formal limit but may nevertheless be restrained by the power of other social institutions -laissez-faire capitalism-an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned and operated for profit with minimal or no government interference -Great Compromise the agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 where representation in the House of Representatives would be apportioned according to the number of inhabitants in each state, but in the Senate each state would have an equal vote regardless of its population -New Jersey Plan a framework for the Constitution, introduced by William Paterson, which called for equal state representation in the national legislature regardless of population -supremacy clause Article VI of the Constitution, which states that laws passed by the national government and all treaties “shall be the supreme law of the land” and superior to all laws adopted by any state or any subdivision -Three-fifths Compromise t...