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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 35-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Pennsylvania dissenters' primary objection to the Constitution?
(a) The lack of a bill of rights.
(b) A free government cannot govern so large and disparate an area.
(c) The strength of the federal government.
(d) The lack of restrictions on the government's ability to tax the people.

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

3. Who proposed that government officers not receive salaries?
(a) James Madison.
(b) Alexander Hamilton.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) George Washington.

4. What did opponents of the resolution that was ultimately adopted think would be the consequence of adopting the proposal?
(a) That states would work by region to set their own laws and standards.
(b) That the states would be eradicated.
(c) That the states would have to band together to oppose the government.
(d) That the states would lose tax income to the federal government.

5. What did "Publius" argue regarding the fear of a centralized government?
(a) He argued that a centralized government would distribute the wealth more effectively.
(b) He argued that large nations are less dangerous than quarrelling small states.
(c) He argued that a central government would be more efficient than a number of state governments.
(d) He argued that checks and balances would lead to government paralysis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Madison and Jefferson want to do about judges?

2. What did James Madison argue with relation to the New Jersey Plan?

3. Where else did the question of proposing limitations arise, besides the debate over suffrage?

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

5. What did Dr. Johnson advocate during the debate over federal power?

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