CH5-S2-Drafting the Constitution

The Great Compromise proposed that a state's land area would determine its representation in the House of Representatives.

• True

• False; wealth

• False; population

The Three-Fifths Compromise called for three-fifths of a state's landless citizens to be counted as population.

• True

• False; cash crops

• False: slaves

The Constitution assigns responsibility for carrying out laws to the judicial branch.

• True

• False; executive

• False; legislative

The delegates established a system of checks and balances to prevent any one federal branch from dominating the other two.

• True

• False; separation of powers

Delegates from small states objected to George Washington's Virginia Plan which proposed a bicameral legislature with members in both houses based on population.

• True

• False; Alexander Hamilton

• False: James Madison

Roger Sherman's proposal for a two-house Congress, known as the Great Compromise, finally satisfied the large and small states.

• True

• False; James Madison

• False; George Washington

The new system of government, a form of federalism, divided power between the states and the national government.

• True

• False; Articles of Confederation

The Great Compromise was an agreement about how to

• ratify the Constitution

• count slaves in determining population

• determine a state's representation in Congress

• divide powers between the states and central government

The system that maintains the separation of powers among the branches of the federal government is called

• reserved powers

• delegated powers

• checks and balances

• a bicameral legislature