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(Dioxana) 1. Articles of Confederation – What is the structure of government? What were the strengths and weaknesses? Why were the Articles unsuccessful?

The Articles of Confederation was set up under one house legislature named Congress. In this, the 13 independant states had up to only seven representatives, but only one of them could vote no matter the size or population of the state. Each had their own independent power to control their own affairs. Congress had few powers such as, mantaining communications with the other countries. They could borrow money and issue currency and more important control the army. On the other hand, they did have weaknesses. For instance, they couldn't enforce laws that were passed because Congress had no executive branch to enforce it. Another weakness was that they couldn't pass any laws without having the approval of nine of the other 13 states. Therefore, if there was an argument between them they had no judicial branch to solve the problem. Also, they couldn't pay back soldiers from the Revolutionary War, so they raised taxes on farms and the farmers couldn't pay up. The Articles of Confederation was unsucessful because they had many issues or problems that they were not able to fix and with a small portion of power.

(Angie) 2. Constitutional Convention Compromises – What was the issue? What were the two perspectives? What was the solution?

A.The great compromise was the idea of creating a new government made of 2 branches.The Senate and the House Of Representatives.which was the lower house. The Senate would be the upper house which was made of 2 state representatives.the debate came to the conclusion of using the idea of Roger Sherman. B.The three fifths compromise was that the South wanted all slaves to be considered as a "normal" person in voting matters. the North on the other hand, did not want that to happen.They wanted slaves to be taken into consideration as 3/5 ths of a person rather that a whole because if they would be taken as 1, they would automatically loose in votings because the south had about 300,000 slaves.They decided to make slaves 3/5 ths of a person having to do with the population of slaves in the South. C.The importation of slaves was a problem that the North and the South were debating on with a lot of thought.The North wanted to remove slavery permanantly, but the South depended on slavery.So, the debate came to a compromise that they would wait 20 years to stop the importation of slaves, which occured in 1808.

(samar) 3. Founding Fathers – What was their role at the Convention? What ideas did they have? Did they support the Constitution? a. James Madison was the chief architect of the Constitutional Convention. He had ideas of creating an effective government. He did support the Constitution by defending the principle of balance that was built into it. b. Gouverneur Morris was a powerful speaker and writer. He wrote the final draft of the constitution. c. Edmund Randolph was a supporter of a strong national government. d. George Mason was a speaker of the Constitutional Convention and exerted great influence. e. Alexander Hamilton proposed calling a convention to discuss trade issues and suggested that the convention consider possible changes. f. William Patterson was chosen to represent New Jersey in the Convention. He signed the final draft and continued supporting its ratification. g. John Dickinson was sent to the Constitutional Convention but did not sign the constitution.

4. Ratification - What was the issue? What were the two perspectives? What was the solution? a. Federalists favored ratification. b. Anti-Federalists were against ratification.