Week 10 Recap - The Constitutional Convention

What is a constitution?

• A written plan for how a government is to be run

• A law-making group made up of representatives

• A cruel and unjust government

• A volunteer, civilian military force

What does an anti-federalist want?

• A weak national government and strong state governments

• A strong national government

• A monarchy instead of a republic

• Taxation without representation

What does a federalist want?

• A weak national government and strong state governments

• A strong national government

• A volunteer, civilian military force

• For all power and resources to be shared equally with the community

What is Congress?

• The branch of the federal government in which representatives make laws

• A refusal to shop or support a business as a form of protest

• The opposite of progress

• The branch of the federal government also called the Presidency of the United States

Under the New Jersey Plan, how would states be represented in Congress?

• Equal representation

• Big states get more votes

• By Anti-Federalists

• By the Electoral College

Under the Virginia Plan, how would states be represented in Congress?

• Equal representation

• Big states would get more representatives/votes than small states

• By Federalists

• By the Electoral College

What did the Great Compromise create?

• A bicameral legislature

• A branch of government run by the President of the United States

• A rule in which an enslaved person counted as 3/5ths of a citizen for purposes of representation

• The Federalist Papers

How is the chief executive of the United States, also known as the President, chosen?

• By Congress

• By the Electoral College

• By the people

• By the military

The Three-Fifths Compromise called for five enslaved people to be counted as three citizens when determining

• Representation on the Supreme Court

• Representation in the House of Representatives

• How territories would be states

• How enslaved people could be freed

What is a republic?

• A government run by one person

• A government with elected representatives

• A government where all citizens vote on every issue

• A government run by religious figures