Delegates & Missing Figures
Total number of delegates who attended the Convention from 12 states.
What is 55 delegates?
Before the Constitution, states acted like this regarding trade and money.
What are separate countries?
Date the Constitution was signed by delegates.
What is September 17, 1787?
Federalist No. 10 argued this type of political entity actually helps guard against factions.
What is a large republic?
The three were among the people who advocated for a strong national government.
Who are James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton?
Northern states wanted the federal government to set tariffs to protect this economic sector.
What is manufacturing (or factories/shipping)?
First state to ratify the Constitution on December 7, 1787.
What is Delaware?
Federalist No. 51 emphasized this system to prevent one branch from dominating others.
What are checks and balances (or separation of powers)?
This famous revolutionary leader and governor did not attend because he was serving as ambassador to Britain.
Who is John Adams?
Southern states feared high tariffs would hurt this part of their economy.
What is agriculture?
State whose ratification on June 21, 1788, made the ninth required state and allowed the Constitution to take effect.
What is New Hampshire?
Federalist No. 78, written by Hamilton, defended the need for this element of government.
What are independent courts (or judicial review)?
These three Anti‑Federalists were notably absent from the Convention because they opposed a stronger central government.
Who are Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams?
Southern states wanted this voting threshold in Congress for trade laws.
What is a two‑thirds majority (or 2/3)?
Two key states that ratified after strong debate and Federalist campaigning.
What are Virginia and New York?
Number of essays Alexander Hamilton wrote for the Federalist Papers.
What is 51 essays?
Age of Benjamin Franklin, the oldest delegate at the Convention.
What is 81?
This 1807/1808 law followed the compromise's deadline and acted to end the importation of enslaved people.
What is the Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves (passed 1807, effective 1808)?
Last of the original 13 states to ratify, doing so in May 1790 after resisting earlier.
What is Rhode Island?
Name used by the authors when they published the Federalist Papers.
Who is 'Publius'?