Popular Tyranny and Shays

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Popular Tyranny and Shays Rebellion

• Popular tyranny
• Unrestrained
• Shays Rebellion
• As land foreclosures soared, angry protests
  erupted in rural areas of Mass.
• Organized protestors occupied courthouses
• Protestors were Revolutionary War
• Daniel Shays raids

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Significance of Shays Rebellion

• The attack embarrassed leaders of the US
• Rebellion showed a failure in the idea of
• Leaders had to find a way to contain and limit
  the will of the people in a

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Philadelphia Convention

• Authorized to
• Delegates were to determine what changes
• Most delegates had no interest

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An Assembly of Demigods

• The delegates that attended were some of the most
  educated,
• Many had been politically active in Revolutionary
  politics and were
• The assembly was held in secrecy

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Rules for the Convention

• Delegates from at least 7 states had to be
  present to do business
• If a delegates absence would leave a state w/o
  representation, then he had to get permission to
  be absent
• When rising to speak, a delegate had to address
  the president. While he was speaking, other
  members could not pass notes, hold conversations
  with one another, etc.
• Committees could be appointed as necessary
• The conventions proceedings were to remain
  secret. No delegate could disclose the substance
  of the debates, although they were allowed to
  take notes

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The Virginia Plan

• Proposed a STRONG
• National Government would have the power to
• Citizens would be governed under the authority of
  2 governments

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More ideas from the Virginia Plan

• National government would have 3 branches
  legislative, executive and judicial with the
  legislative branch most powerful
• The number of representatives from each state in
  both the House and the Senate would be based on
  the size of its population or contribution to the
  federal treasury

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More ideas from the Virginia Plan

• Congress would have power to make all laws that
• Congress would have power to strike down state
  laws that it considered to be in
• Congress would have power to call forth the armed
  forces against states if need be