Government Sec 4

Question 1

Framers

Answer 1

Group of delegates sent to Philadelphia

Question 2

Key people not there?

Answer 2

Patrick Henry, John Adams, and Tomas Jefferson

Question 3

Original purpose

Answer 3

To revise the Articles of Confederation

Question 4

Ended up doing

Answer 4

Scrap the whole thing and write a new one

Question 5

2 Major plans

Answer 5

Virginia plan and New Jersey plan

Question 6

Features of Virginia plan

Answer 6

3 branches, bicameral, representation-population and amount $ given, executive 1, judicial-supreme court, unitary

Question 7

Features of New Jersey plan

Answer 7

3 branches, unicameral, representation- equal, executive 3, judicial-supreme court and state courts, federal

Question 8

Key issue

Answer 8

Representation in legislative branch

Question 9

Great Compromise-Connecticut

Answer 9

Representation-smaller States feared about little power or say.
Have both representation based on population and equal.

Question 10

Three-fifths compromise

Answer 10

Should slaves be counted as population?

Slaves would be counted as three-fifths of a person, but had to pay a three-fifth head tax.

Question 11

Compromise on interstate and foreign trade

Answer 11

Fear of tax on exports and stop slave trade.

Congress forbidden to tax exports, unable to regulate slave trade for 20 years.

Question 12

Sources for the Constitution

Answer 12

Greece, Rome, great Briton, and Judeo-Christian