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1.The two plans of goverment were The Virginia Plan and The New Jersey Plan. They were both in disagreement because The Virginia Plan gave larger states more power and The New Jersey Plan gave equal power.

The structure of goverment was a legislature called Congress and was made up of 13 representatives. Only one could vote, no matter the population of the state. They had the ablities to borrow money and control armies. They couldn't enforce any laws unless 9 out of the 13 states agreed on the law. They couldn't repay people who lent them money in the war, but they taxed farmers. There was a convention to rewrite the articles, with George Washington as President.

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

a. Great Compromise The issue to be debated was the idea of a new government that created 2 new branches from legislative named Senate and the House of Representatives, the lower house. The two perspectives of this was to keep the old government or have an addition to the government to help things to be decided. The delegates ended up agreeing, and Roger Sherman's idea was used.

b. Three-Fifths Compromise The issue in this was if the slaves were to be counted in the population, so said the South, or to have them be 3/5 of a man, said by the North. The South wanted them to also be equal, so that they would be included in the population, but the North wanted them to be 3/5 of a man because if they were equal, they may have lost some of their political power. In the end, the delegates agreed to have the slaves be only 3/5 of a man.

c. Importation of Slaves To stop or to continue slave importation was the idea of this compromise. The North wanted to abolish slavery, but the South were depended on slavery so they were against any means to abolish slavery. They did not interfere after all with slave importation until 1808.

3. Founding Fathers – What was their role at the Convention? What ideas did they have? Did they support the Constitution?

a. James Madison- created the 3 branch government b. Gouvneur Morris- representative c. Edmund Randolph- delegate who supported Madison's plan d. George Mason- argued for a bill of rights e. Alexander Hamilton- helped write the Federalist papers f. William Patterson- created the New Jersey Plan g. John Dickinson- involved in commitees of state debt, slave trade,eftovers, economy, frugality and leftovers

4. Ratification - What was the issue? Whether to form a new government or not. What were the two perspectives?There was the perspective of the Federalists who supported the ratification. Then there were the Anti-Federalist who were against it. What was the solution? It was that they finally came to a decision to form the new government which soon after the bill of rights was added. a. Federalists-the Federlists are in favor of it because they do not want a government that involved tyranny. b. Anti-Federalists The Anti-Federalists were against it because the believed that if the had a strong central government that didnt have the bill of rights that they would damge or lose their rights.