14 constitutional convention
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CONVENTION
-May 1787 Philadelphia
-12 of 13 states
Rhode Island absent
-55 Delegates
DECISIONS MADE
-rewrite gov’t
-1 vote per state
-keep meeting a secret
-majority rules
ISSUES AT DEBATE
-representation
large states
small states
-slavery
-economics
PLANS PROPOSED
-Virginia Plan
-James Madison
-3 branches
-bicameral Congress
-population based
-New Jersey Plan
-small state plan
-equal voting
-group executive
-promoted state’s rights
COMPROMISES
-Great Compromise
-Agreement made at theConvention of 1787 thatcreated a two houselegislature with one housebased on population and theother based on state equality
- House
-Senate
Roger Sherman
COMPROMISES
-3/5 Compromise
-Agreement made at theconvention of 1787 that slaveswould count as 3/5 a personfor the census to determinethe population of each state
-Slave Trade Compromise
-Agreement at the conventionof 1787 that Congress wouldnot tax exports and slavetrading could be banned in 20years
NEW GOV’T
-much stronger
-power to tax
-regulate trade
-strong executive
-needed 9 of 13 to ratify
NEW GOV’T
-much stronger
-power to tax
-regulate trade
-strong executive
-needed 9 of 13 to ratify
RATIFICATION-Federalists
-Political group who supportedthe passage of the newConstitution and its strongergovernment
-Anti-Federalist
-Political group who opposedthe new Constitution andthought it lacked a specific listof people’s rights
-Federalist Papers support thenew government
-written by Hamilton, Madison,and Jay
-Bill of Rights promised
RATIFICATION-Federalists
-Political group who supportedthe passage of the newConstitution and its strongergovernment
-Anti-Federalist
-Political group who opposedthe new Constitution andthought it lacked a specific listof people’s rights
-Federalist Papers support thenew government
-written by Hamilton, Madison,and Jay
-Bill of Rights promisedPatrick Henry