Constitutional Convention Video 2

A rule of law still used by the United States today

A newspaper article written about the Declaration of Independence

A weak framework for a federal government agreed to by the 13 states

Who would be in charge of the government

How strong they wanted to make the central government

How to win the war against England

It proposed a stronger national government that had more power than the states

It proposed a weaker federal government that had less power than the states

It proposed that the states and the national government would have equal power

Each state got one vote

States got a different number of votes depending on how many people lived there

States got a different number of votes depending on the size of their land

A place for the delegates to finish their work

A compromise for who would be in charge of the federal government

A compromise on how to structure the legislature

A solution for how to count enslaved people for representation

An agreement on how many Southern states could vote

A decision about how much an enslaved person's vote would count