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Section 3 -- ss
Section 3 study guide
Question | Answer |
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What change to the structure of government did the Virginia Plan suggest? | Gave the federal government supreme power and divided the government into three branches. |
How did the Great Compromise resolve the debate over state representation in the federal government? | It created a bicameral (two house) legislature, where in one house states population determined the number of representatives and in the other the number of representatives were equal |
In what way did northerners and southerners disagree about the issue of slavery at the Constitutional Convention? | Southerners wanted slaves to be counted as part of their state populations |
How did the delegates resolve the debate over how slaves should factor into representation in government? | They reached a compromise that allowed each individual slave to be counted as three-fifths of a person. |
What is federalism? | A system of government in which powers of government are shared between the national and state governments |
Both the federal and the state governments share the power to…(Interpret Graphic Organizer) | Collect taxes, regulate banks, establish, administer a judiciary, borrow money, provide for common good, and make and enforce laws. |
Which of the following is a power reserved only to the states?(Interpret Graphic Organizer) | Establish local government, regulate intrastate commerc3, public education - school, conduct elections, provide for common good..... |
Why did the framers of the Constitution create a system of checks and balances? | to keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful |
This delegate played an instrumental role in the drafting of the U.S. Constitution | james madison, ben franklin or george washinton |
Popular Sovereignty is… | The idea that the political power rests in the hands of the people |