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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Edmund Randolph present to the delegates?
(a) The Great Compromise.
(b) The Virginia Plan.
(c) Articles of Confederation.
(d) The New Jersey Plan.

3. How would government service be seen if government officers did not receive salaries, in the opinion of the man who proposed this?
(a) As an entitlement.
(b) As a stepping stone.
(c) As a privilege.
(d) As a duty.

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

5. What did the delegates argue concerning the question of whether the judiciary should be able to veto legislation?
(a) That the executive would thereby attain control over the legislature through the judiciary.
(b) That the judiciary would thereby acquire legislative power.
(c) That the judiciary would become the most powerful branch of government.
(d) That the executive would be rendered powerless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the benefit of adopting the resolution that was ultimately adopted?

2. What were the delegates' intentions when they argued for election of Senators from state legislatures?

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

4. Which form of government includes a representative government without hereditary privilege?

5. What compromise did this body propose, between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did James Madison argue against the New Jersey Plan?

2. Why was democracy unpopular?

3. What was the Great Compromise?

4. What role did Alexander Hamilton see for a strong federal government?

5. What did delegates fear in the federal government's ability to veto state laws?

6. What were the forms of government being considered at the Constitutional Convention?

7. What was an argument for electing Senators in state legislatures?

8. Why did Benjamin Franklin believe that government officers should not receive salaries?

9. What were the delegates' positions on the question of Senatorial term limits?

10. What was the heart of the opposition between Federalists and Anti-federalists?

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