Planner and Warm-up

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Planner and Warm-up

• Planner

• Warm-up

• Quiz on Section two notes Friday!!!

• No warm-up today!!

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The Constitution

• Chapter 3 Section 2

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Main Idea

• Compromise would be necessary in order to reach
  an agreement on the Constitution.

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EQ

• What plans for government did the delegates offer
  at the Const. Conv?
• What compromises were agreed upon?

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The Virginia Plan

• James Madison designed the Virgina Plan.
• It called for a three branch government
• -legislative lawmakers
• -executive carry out the laws
• -judicial interpret and apply the laws.
• Two houses in the legislature, which would be
  based on population of each state.

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Opposing Plans

• Large states liked the Virgina Plan
• Small states felt they might be ignored.
• The New Jersey Plan also called for three
  branches of government.
• The legislature would have one house and each
  state would get one vote.

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The Compromise

• Roger Shermans committee proposed a Senate and a
  House of Representatives.
• Each state would have equal representation in the
  Senate and House of Representatives would be
  based on population.
• The delegates accepted the Great Compromise.

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Three-Fifths Compromise

• Southern States wanted to count enslaved Africans
  as part of their population.
• Northeren states opposed this.
• In the Three-Fifths Compromise, delegates agreed
  that every five enslaved persons would count as
  three free persons.

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Warm-up and Planner 10/2/08

• Planner

• Warm-up

• Study for quiz on Chapter 3 section 2.
• Finish worksheets.

• Look at the political cartoon on page 59 and
  answer the question about it. You do not have to
  write the question. Be sure to write the date of
  todays warm-up.

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Slave Trade

• Northern states wanted Congress to be able to
  regulate trade
• Southern states feared this would interfere with
  their slave trade.
• They agreed to give Congress the power to
  regulate trade, but it could not tax exports of
  interfere with the slave trade before 1808.

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How to choose a President

• Delegates disagreed on whether Congress or the
  voters should choose the president.
• The solution was the Electoral College, a group
  of people named by each state legislature to
  select the president and vice president.
• Today, the voters in each state, not the
  legislators, choose electors.

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Federalist

• Ratification required at least 9 of 13 state
  conventions to vote yes.
• Supporters of the constitution called themselves
  Federalists to emphasize that the Constitution
  would create a system of federalism, a form of
  government in which power is divided between the
  federal, or national, government and the states.
• Federalists argued for a strong central
  government.

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Anti-Federalist

• Opponents, the Anti-Federalists, wanted more
  power for the states and less for the national
  government.
• They also wanted a bill of rights to protect
  individual freedoms.
• Both agreed to add a bill of rights. This promise
  turned the tide.
• The Constitution took effect when New Hampshire
  became the ninth state to ratify it.