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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. Why did delegates argue for a judicial veto power?
(a) To correct bad laws.
(b) To protect small states.
(c) To prevent bad executive judgment.
(d) To prevent corruption.

2. What reason did Mr. Mason give for the view he presented at the convention?
(a) The people could not be trusted to govern themselves.
(b) Representation should be the one fully democratic part of government.
(c) The populace needed power but they also needed to be checked.
(d) Democracy was dangerous for a country without precedents.

3. What did Madison and Jefferson want to do about judges?
(a) Allow them independence in their rulings.
(b) Protect them from popular politics.
(c) Review their judgments in the Congress.
(d) Subject them to elections.

4. Why did delegates argue that Senators should be elected in state legislatures?
(a) The states would therefore have an interest in preserving the federal government.
(b) The government would be composed of professional politicians.
(c) The state legislatures would thereby gain power against the federal government.
(d) The House of Representatives would be counter-balanced.

5. What kind of representation did James Madison advocate?
(a) Representation by revenue.
(b) Representation by person.
(c) Representation by state size.
(d) Representation by state.

Short Answer Questions

1. What deliberative body created a compromise between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?

2. What were Americans concluding by the 1780s?

3. Who proposed that government officers not receive salaries?

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

5. Why did Mr. Wilson prefer the New Jersey Plan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did delegates discuss regarding the appointment of judges?

2. What were some positions delegates took on the New Jersey Plan?

3. What paradox does James Madison articulate about the need for a strong federal government?

4. Describe the delegates' reaction to the New Jersey Plan.

5. In what ways were delegates afraid of executive power?

6. What was the Virginia Plan?

7. What needs did Governor Edmund Randolph of Virginia believe the Virginia Plan would satisfy that the Articles did not?

8. What were the views on either side of the question of electing representatives?

9. Describe George Mason's speech regarding the question of a single or plural executive.

10. What was Alexander Hamilton's argument about the need for a central government?

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