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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was particularly concerned about the Virginia Plan?
(a) Large states.
(b) Southern states.
(c) Small states.
(d) Populous states.

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

4. Why did delegates argue for a judicial veto power?
(a) To correct bad laws.
(b) To protect small states.
(c) To prevent corruption.
(d) To prevent bad executive judgment.

5. Which form of government includes a king whose powers are limited by a statement of the laws?
(a) Empire.
(b) Constitutional monarchy.
(c) Republic.
(d) Representative democracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must the government use its power to protect the people from, in James Madison's opinion?

2. Who proposed that government officers not receive salaries?

3. What did James Madison argue concerning the question of whether the executive should be chosen by the legislature?

4. What did the Southern economy rely on at the time of the constitutional convention?

5. What reason did delegates give for Senators being elected in state legislatures?

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