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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the delegates debate concerning state laws?
(a) Whether state laws could govern inter-state trade.
(b) Whether the federal government could control state laws.
(c) Whether state laws could set precedent for federal laws.
(d) Whether the states could allow the death penalty.

2. What did Edmund Randolph present to the delegates?
(a) Articles of Confederation.
(b) The New Jersey Plan.
(c) The Virginia Plan.
(d) The Great Compromise.

3. What power was missing from the Articles?
(a) The power to conduct war.
(b) The power to regulate foreign trade.
(c) The power to amend the Articles.
(d) Executive power.

4. What were Americans concluding by the 1780s?
(a) That representation could have been earned without warfare.
(b) That there was too much power in the federal government.
(c) That the federal executive was too weak.
(d) That mercantile colonialism had been a working model before the revolution.

5. What was the Great Compromise?
(a) Bring Texas into the union as a slave state, and Missouri as free.
(b) Appoint judges for life, but allow them to be impeached.
(c) A bicameral legislature.
(d) The creation of the Electoral College.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did George Mason argue in the debate of June 4?

2. What did Mr. Mason propose in his arguments of June 4?

3. What reason did Mr. Mason give for the view he presented at the convention?

4. What complaints were lodged against the proposal to elect Senators in state legislatures?

5. What did William Paterson offer the convention?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did the Federalist Papers come from?

2. What needs did Governor Edmund Randolph of Virginia believe the Virginia Plan would satisfy that the Articles did not?

3. Name three or more delegates and describe their attitudes toward popular rule.

4. What was the Great Compromise?

5. What were the delegates' positions on the question of Senatorial term limits?

6. What paradox does James Madison articulate about the need for a strong federal government?

7. Why did Benjamin Franklin believe that government officers should not receive salaries?

8. Describe George Mason's speech regarding the question of a single or plural executive.

9. What was Alexander Hamilton's argument about the need for a central government?

10. What were some positions delegates took on the New Jersey Plan?

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