Creating The Constitution

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 created 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 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 a legislature should be based on population

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

• did not want 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