Government 2-4

The Virginia Plan proposed a weaker executive branch than the New Jersey Plan.

• True

• False

The Three-Fifths Compromise lasted until the Fourteenth Amendment declared that everyone would be counted as a whole person.

• True

• False

Patrick Henry opposed the new Constitution because it created a weak national government.

• True

• False

The major debates at the Constitutional Convention were not over the basic ideas of the new government, but how they would put these ideas into practice.

• True

• False

In order for the Bill of Rights to become part of the Constitution, it had to be approved by Congress and ratified by the states.

• True

• False

New Jersey delegates did not support the Virginia Plan because they thought

• it gave too much power to the large states.

• the legislature would be able to control the executive branch

• the judicial branch would not be independent.

• the number of votes a state had in the legislature should be based on population.

George Mason refused to sign the draft Constitution because

• he believed the length of the president’s term should be two years.

• he thought the president should be elected by the people, not the Electoral College.

• it created a bicameral legislature, which he thought gave the small states too much power.

• it prohibited the government from restricting the slave trade for 20 years.

In The Federalist, No. 10, James Madison argued in favor of a large republic because

• it would make it easier for Congress to regulate interstate commerce.

• the chances of the majority having common motives would decrease.

• the president’s power would be decreased.

• the states with smaller populations would have more power.

The Anti-Federalists demanded that the Constitution have a bill of rights because they

• believed it was needed in order to protect individual liberties.

• wanted the national government to be able to restrict the slave trade.

• wanted representation in the Senate to be based on population.

• were concerned that the judicial branch would be overly powerful.

The convention delegates supported the concept of separation of powers as expressed

• by Charles de Montesquieu.

• by John Locke.

• in the English Bill of Rights

• in the Magna Carta