Ratification of the US Constitution

II. ​ (a)   ensure the ​ (b)   of the ​ (c)   Convention

• Compromises
• success
• Constitutional

​ (a)   state/ ​ (b)   state controversy 1. ​ (c)   Plan is introduced during the first month of the convention and becomes the yardstick other plans are compared to - ​ (d)   state plan

a. designed to ensure large state ​ (e)   of the new government

• large
• small
• Virginia
• domination

b. favored a ​ (a)   legislature

c. lower house ​ (b)   elected

d. upper house chosen by the ​ (c)   house from ​ (d)   legislature nominees

e. representation to be based on either ​ (e)   or wealth

• bicameral
• popularly
• lower
• state
• population

f. Congress given the ​ (a)   plus the “right to legislate in all cases in which the several states are incompetent”

g. Congress had the authority to ​ (b)   state legislation

h. executive to be chosen by the ​ (c)   branch - emphasize the significance of this Parliamentary form of government

i. provisions for a national ​ (d)   court

• Confederation power
• veto
• legislative
• supreme

New Jersey had its own plan...the small state plan

2. 2. New Jersey plan - ​ (a)   state plan

a. designed to allow small states to control the new government - feared ​ (b)   by larger states

b. did not question the need for stronger government, only ​ (c)   would control it

• small
• domination
• who

c. gave Congress the power to ​ (a)   commerce, tax, and coerce the states

d. ​ (b)   legislature with each state having an equal vote

e. also contained the germ of a national ​ (c)   clause

3. to accept the Virginia Plan would have ​ (d)   the constitution because small states would not ratify it

• regulate
• unicameral
• supremacy
• doomed

4. Connecticut Compromise (​ (a)   Compromise) - Roger Sherman a. ​ (b)   legislature b. ​ (c)   representation in the Senate c. House of Representative based on ​ (d)   d. all money bills must begin in the ​ (e)   e. who wins the great compromise? - why?

• Great
• bicameral
• equal
• population
• House

three-fifths compromise

1. some movement during the convention for the ​ (a)   of slavery - that would ensure ​ (b)   of ratification attempts

2. concern over how slaves are to be treated for purposes of r (c)   and ​ t (d)  

3. count as three-fifths of a ​ (e)   for each - which would each side prefer?

• abolition
• defeat
• epresentation
• axation
• person

4. slave trade is protected for ​ (a)   years - limits Congressional power to act on it 5. ratification of all ​ (b)   would require a two-thirds vote 6. these concessions were required for ​ (c)   support

• twenty
• treaties
• Southern

III. Major components of the constitution A.. establishment of fundamental law - government by ​ (a)   rather than ​ (b)   B. division of power - the concept of ​ (c)   (government power divided into national and state levels)

1. ​ (d)   sovereignty

2. each supreme in their own ​ (e)  

• law
• men
• federalism
• divided
• sphere