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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 did Madison argue for in his letter to George Washington?
(a) The supremacy of national laws over states' laws.
(b) Independence of states to coin money.
(c) Restraints against a supreme national legislature.
(d) Independence of states to make laws.

2. What did Madison say the country needed, in his letter to George Washington?
(a) A charismatic leader.
(b) A dispassionate umpire.
(c) A central coordinating committee.
(d) Short presidential terms.

3. What subject were the delegates debating in Chapter 6?
(a) Whether government officers should receive pay.
(b) Whether the executive should be singular or plural.
(c) Who should be eligible to vote in elections.
(d) Whether the federal government should oversee state laws.

4. What deliberative body created a compromise between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?
(a) The Supreme Court.
(b) The Congress.
(c) A grand committee.
(d) The Senate.

5. Where did James Madison argue government legitimacy came from?
(a) Consent of the governed.
(b) The power of the government.
(c) The political process itself.
(d) The righteousness of laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mr. Wilson's feeling about the compromise?

2. What did Mr. Sherman argue concerning the question of whether the executive should be chosen by the legislature?

3. What did the delegates debate concerning state laws?

4. What were Americans concluding by the 1780s?

5. What theory was flourishing in the 1770s in America?

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