8.4 Lesson Review

8.4 Lesson Review

Constitutional Convention

The People Attending

• Educated men and leaders

  • Why is this an important detail?

• Those not attending afraid of a strong central government

Multiple Choice

Why did some men not want to attend the Constitutional Convention?

• They were afraid the states would get too powerful

• They did not want Britain to gain control of the colonies

• They were afraid of a strong central government

Similar Thoughts

• Power corrupts

• Authority should be limited and divided (not kept with just ONE group) 

• Government gets power from the people (with the Articles it came from the states)

• Government exists to secure people's natural rights

• What are people's 'natural rights'?

Multiple Select

Check all the boxes that show similar thoughts people attending the Convention had.

• Government protects people's natural rights

• The people need to protect the government at all costs

• Government was more powerful than the people

• Government got its power from the people

1 - Who gets a say in the representative government?
2 - How much power should the government have?

​Two Questions to Answer..............

Poll

Which of the below issues might have been the most important, for the Constitutional Convention, in your opinion?

• Who gets a say in the representative government?

• How much power should the government have?