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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 did Mr. Paterson argue about the New Jersey Plan?
(a) That it did not protect the states enough.
(b) That it diminished the power of the states.
(c) That it did not give the executive too much power.
(d) That it made the federal government too independent.

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

3. What did delegates oppose in the Virginia Plan?
(a) Isolating America in the international community.
(b) Giving populous states too much influence.
(c) Increasing the federal government's power.
(d) Giving the states too much independence.

4. What was DeWitt arguing against in his essays?
(a) Representation by state.
(b) An executive for life.
(c) Taxation.
(d) Energetic central government.

5. What method of ratification did Oliver Ellsworth advocate?
(a) Ratification by special conventions in each state.
(b) Ratification by state legislature.
(c) Ratification national referendum.
(d) Ratification by straw poll.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did opponents to the suffrage limitation argue?

4. What were opponents of the resolution that was ultimately adopted afraid of?

5. Why did Mr. Wilson prefer the New Jersey Plan?

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