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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which constituents did Dr. Johnson want to placate with the plan he advocated?

2. What were opponents of the resolution that was ultimately adopted afraid of?

3. What did the delegates argue concerning the question of whether the judiciary should be associated with the executive?

4. What did William Paterson offer the convention?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was constitutional monarchy unpopular?

3. What did delegates object to in the Virginia Plan?

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

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

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

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

8. What problems were Americans having with the Articles of Confederation?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How was the Constitution changed by the ratification process? What was added? What was taken away? How did this affect the balance of powers between the states and the federal government?

Essay Topic 2

How did the Constitutional Convention protect states' rights? Discuss three issues as evidence of the Constitutional Convention's protection of the states.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. What are the main differences? What similarities survived the Constitutional Convention, and why did they survive?

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