Creating the Constitution
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Identify the Framers of the Constitution and discuss how they organized the Philadelphia Convention.
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Compare and contrast the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan.
- Summarize the convention’s major compromises and the effects of those decisions.
Virginia Plan
- Three Branches of Government
- Congressional Representation based on population and money
- Strong centralized government
- Congress chose the Executive and Judicial branches
Virginia Plan
New Jersey
Plan
New Jersey Plan
- Congressional representation based on territory
- Congress chose Executive
- Executive chose Judicial
Connecticut Compromise
Connecticut
Compromise
- Also known as "The Great Compromise"
- Bicameral Congress
- House based on population
- Senate based on equal representation
- House chose Senators - why?
- Who chose the President?
3/5 Compromise
3/5 Compromise
Each slave as three-fifths of a person when figuring representation in Congress
Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
Congress could not tax state exports or interfere with the slave trade until 1808
Structure of the Constitution
- Article 1: Legislative Branch
- Article 2: Executive Branch
- Article 3: Judicial Branch
- Article 4: State Relations
- Article 5: Constitutional Amendments
- Article 6: Supremacy Clause
- Article 7: Constitutional Ratification
- 9/13 States to Ratify
- What about the others?
The Battle for Ratification
Identify the opposing sides in the fight for ratification.
Analyze the major arguments for/against the proposed Constitution.
Federalist
- Led by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton
- Believed in a strong central government
Anti-Federalist
- Led by Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams
- Opposed a strong central government
- Worried about the lack of protection for civil rights
What do they do?
Federalists
- James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington
- The Federalist Papers
Anti-Federalists
- Patrick Henry, Sam Adams, John Hancock
- Anti-Federalist papers
Another Compromise...
