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Compromises
Delegates to the Convention
General Quotations
Issues of the Convention
Ratification Debates
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Compromise that resulted in creation of present bicameral legislature
What is the Connecticut Compromise
100
The leader of the Committee of Style
What is Gouverneur Morris
100
"“A republic . . . if you can keep it.”
What is Benjamin Franklin
100
The goals of the convention
What is to fix the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and create a document that is ratifyable
100
What the Antifederalists referred to themselves as
What are Republicans
200
Compromise reached over representation in the House of Representatives
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise
200
Architects of the Connecticut Compromise
What are Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth
200
“The Constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.”
What is Thomas Jefferson
200
The two philosophical truths that the Framers challenged at the Convention
What is republics need to be small and homogeneous and sovereignty cannot be divided
200
Antifederalist argument concerning wording of the Constitution
What is vagueness leads to abuse of power
300
Compromise resulting from arguments on how to elect the chief executive
What is the Presidential Election Compromise (Electoral College)
300
The architect of the New Jersey Plan
What is William Paterson
300
“I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.”
What is Benjamin Franklin
300
Trend in the balance of power between branches in the state constitutions at the time, and why many of the Framers feared it
What is legislative supremacy; led to "mobocracy" and the elite being targeted by unfair legislation
300
The Federalist response to the argument that standing armies fuel opression
What is standing armies will never outnumber the state militias
400
Compromise resulting from conflicting arguments concerning the abolition of slavery
What is the Slave Trade Compromise
400
Delegate that had large influence on Article II
What is James Wilson
400
“My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to speak the language of ‘We, the People,’ instead of ‘We, the States’?”
What is Patrick Henry
400
Reason why voting restrictions were left to the states
What is the fact that some delegates believed in universal manhood suffrage (Franklin) while others believed in only the wealthiest being able to vote (SC)
400
Federalist argument for why the Constitution doesn't need a Bill of Rights
What is the argument that the Constitution is republican and derives its power from the people
500
Compromise that resulted in Congress having the power to tax only imports instead of both imports and exports
What is the Commerce Compromise
500
The de facto leader of the Convention
What is Nathanial Gorham
500
“I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention—being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.”
What is Elbridge Gerry
500
Reasons why North wanted to levy tariffs while South did not
What is the Northern argument that tariffs promoted industry, while the South believed retaliatory tariffs from other countries would harm the sale of crop exports
500
The terminology that reflects the Antifederalists' fear that power will centralize over time and seize the people's liberties
What is the iron law of oligarchy