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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 did the delegates argue concerning the question of whether the judiciary should be associated with the executive?
(a) That the executive and judiciary should be allied.
(b) That the separation of powers would foster isolationism.
(c) That the executive alone should choose judges.
(d) That the judiciary should be a sub-function of the legislature.

2. How many delegates signed the Constitution?
(a) All but thirteen.
(b) All of them.
(c) All but three.
(d) All but twenty-three.

3. What did Gouverneur Morris argue concerning the question of whether the executive should be chosen by the legislature?
(a) He argued that the executive should be appointed by the Supreme Court.
(b) He argued that the executive should be appointed by the Senate.
(c) He argued that the executive should be elected by the people.
(d) He argued that the executive should be elected by the Congress.

4. What did a legitimate government require, in James Madison's opinion?
(a) A strong military.
(b) Direct democracy.
(c) Aristocrats.
(d) Freedom from debt.

5. How did the South want the Constitution to regulate trade?
(a) The South wanted the Constitution to keep tariffs low indefinitely.
(b) The South wanted the Constitution to keep Congress from restricting trade.
(c) The South wanted the Constitution to let Congress set tariffs with a simple majority vote.
(d) The South wanted the Constitution not to regulate trade at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Americans and Britons discussing a great deal during the 1770s?

2. What was the objection to constitutional monarchy at the constitutional convention?

3. Who wrote the introduction to this edition of "The Anti-Federalist Papers"?

4. What did opponents to the suffrage limitation argue?

5. How many branches of government did Mr. Madison propose be elected?

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