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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did George Mason say he feared, in his argument on June 4?
(a) That government will degenerate into mob rule.
(b) That government will degenerate into a tool of businesses.
(c) That government will degenerate into monarchy.
(d) That government will not have enough funding.

3. Which constituents did Dr. Johnson want to placate with the plan he advocated?
(a) Foreign diplomats.
(b) Federalists.
(c) Small states.
(d) The upper classes.

4. How did the New Jersey Plan resolve the question of the relationship of state laws to federal laws?
(a) It gave the states priority in matters of trade, but the federal government priority in military matters.
(b) Congressional laws were still the law of the land.
(c) The Supreme Court would decide on a state-by-state basis which laws took precedence.
(d) State laws could still take precedence.

5. What reason did delegates give for Senators being elected in state legislatures?
(a) They would already know the laws.
(b) They would therefore be men of character.
(c) They would have the contacts they needed within the state.
(d) They would therefore be essentially promoted from within.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the South want the Constitution to regulate trade?

3. What did James Madison argue during the argument over representation by person or by state?

4. What plan did James Madison favor?

5. Where did James Madison argue government legitimacy came from?

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