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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Ratification of the Constitution, Chapters 31-34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What resolution was ultimately adopted?
(a) To give federal laws supremacy over state laws.
(b) To allow the Supreme Court to decide which laws were supreme.
(c) To give state laws independence from the federal legislature.
(d) To prevent the federal government from overriding state laws.

2. What reason did Alexander Hamilton give for ratification of the Constitution?
(a) Good government cannot compete with subordinate governments.
(b) Good government needs to be representative.
(c) Good government needs to be deliberative.
(d) Good government needs to be energetic.

3. What did James Madison worry about concerning ratification in the states?
(a) The states might not act in the national interest.
(b) The states could sink the ratification process.
(c) The states could hold the federal government hostage with no votes.
(d) The federal government would be powerless without unanimous ratification.

4. What does James Madison argue on the question of suffrage?
(a) He thought that universal suffrage would ruin the government.
(b) He thought that suffrage restrictions were regrettable but necessary.
(c) He thought that universal suffrage should triumph.
(d) He thought that suffrage restrictions were a step toward monarchy.

5. What did James Wilson argue concerning the question of taxation?
(a) He argued that the government would use tax money wisely.
(b) He argued that it was necessary.
(c) He argued that the European nations were taxed more heavily.
(d) He argued that it would result in better services.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the New Jersey Plan allow the federal government to do?

2. What imbalance gave James Madison cause for worry about ratification in the states?

3. What position was James Wilson asked to take in the Constitutional debate?

4. How much of the Virginia Plan was accepted?

5. What was James Wilson calling for in his speech to the Pennsylvania legislature?

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