Constitutional Facts!

The Virginia Plan proposed

• a legislature with representation based on population.

• a legislature with equal representation for all states.

• a government controlled by the states.

The New Jersey Plan proposed...

• a legislature with representation based on population.

• a legislature with equal representatives for each state.

• a legislature that has 3 houses.

Which item is something that was NOT in the Great Compromise?

• A Bicameral Legislature

• Number of representatives based on state population in the House of Representatives.

• Number of representatives equal from each state in the Senate.

• A central government that is weaker than the state governments.

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise that...

• counted three-fifths of the South's cash crop production towards GDP.

• counted three-fifths of a state's slave population towards representation in the Senate.

• counted three-fifths of a state's slave population towards representation in the House of Representatives.

• Did not allow any slaves to be counted towards state population.

Popular Sovereignty is...

• the idea that the central government should have all of the political power.

• the idea that political authority belongs to the people.

• the idea that the central government should share power with the states.

• the idea that no single branch of government should become too powerful.

The three branches of government are ________________

• Executive, Legislative, and Judicial
• Legislative, Judicial, and National
• Executive, Principle, and Judicial
• Judicial, National, and Legislative

Which branch of government has two houses?

• Executive
• Legislative
• Judicial
• National

This is the term used to describe the sharing of power between a central government and the states that make up a country.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Checks and Balances

• Compromises

• Federalism

Before the U.S. Constitution was ratified, the United States was governed by which document?

• Magna Carta
• Articles of Confederation
• Mayflower Compact
• Declaration of Independence

Southern States benefited from the Three-Fifths Compromise because-

• they had very small populations
• they had very large populations
• they had a warm climate
• they had large populations of slaves