View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Mr. Hamilton argue during the debate over the length of Senatorial term-lengths?

3. Where should budget bills start, according to the compromise?

4. What thoughts did Mr. Madison express on the topic of elections during debate at the convention?

5. What did opponents of the resolution that was ultimately adopted think would be the consequence of adopting the proposal?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the Virginia Plan?

5. Name three or more delegates and describe their attitudes toward popular rule.

6. How was the New Jersey Plan an alternative to the Virginia Plan?

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

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

9. Why was constitutional monarchy unpopular?

10. What particular example of separation of powers did delegates argue over?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What values and what practical considerations were written into the Constitution regarding the election of government officials? How did the current electoral system evolve from the first debates through the draft Constitution and then the ratification process? What were the dominant arguments on either side of the debate, and whose values were ultimately written into the Constitution?

Essay Topic 2

Who is articulating the Anti-Federalist platform today? Compare and contrast Anti-Federalists today and Anti-Federalists of the 1780s.

Essay Topic 3

How did the Constitution change between its first draft after being compiled, and the final draft that was ratified by the states?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 783 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample