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1. **Articles of Confederation – What is the structure of government? What were the strengths and weaknesses? Why were the Articles unsuccessful?** The structure of the government was a congress. Their weaknesses were that they could not pass the laws without nine of the thirteen states approving that law. Another weakness was that they could not be changed unless all the states voted in agreement. Third was that any of the laws that were passed by Congress could not be enforced because their was no executive branch. The strengths were they could maintain communications and also had control over an army. The Articles of Confederation were unsuccessful because they were not paid and plantations were damaged by the war. 2. **Constitutional Convention Compromises – What was the issue? What were the two perspectives? What was the solution?** There was an idea were larger states like Virginia had more power than smaller states. Therefore the north was separated from the south because in the south. Roger Sherman from Connecticut proposed that the government should be divided in two, the upper and lower house. The upper house or Senate would consist of two representatives from each state.The lower house or The House of Representatives that would be proportioned to the amount of the population of the state.The three fifths compromised was established because small states saw that states like Virginia had the upper hand because it had over 290,000 slaves so they decided that every five slaves would equal three people. The compromise on the importation of slaves was set that Congress would not interfere in twenty years. 3. **Founding Fathers – What was their role at the Convention? What ideas did they have? Did they support the Constitution? a. James Madison**-His role in the convention was trying to convince the states to change the government of the United States which he did. He did support the Constitution by writing the Federalist papers, he's the one who thought of the Virginia Plan. **g. John Dickinson​-** Although he missed some of the meetings he made great contributions toward it like the Commitee of Postponed Matters and helped engineer the Great Compromise. He had helped write the Articles. He supported it but e did not sign it. 4.**Ratification - What was the issue? What were the two perspectives? What was the solution?** There were two groups the Federalists and the Anti-federalists. The group that disagreed with the ratification were the Anti-federalists. George Mason and his followers, the Anti-federalists, believed that the government should have a Bill of Rights to protect individual freedom .They believed that the strong central government was far to similar to that of the English. In contrast the Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, believed that the ratification was the best for the states. They believed that the government should not be divided into three, legislative, executive, and judiciary because that would result in a tyranny. In the end the Federalists won the debate only if they included a Bill of Rights which later came in1791.
 * b. Gouvneur Morris-**He signed the Articles of Confederation and sent instructions to Benjamin Franklin In Paris. Yes he dd support the Constitution since he's apparently he one who drafted it. His biggest idea was the Constitution itself.
 * c. Edmund Randolph-**He helped draft the details for the Constitution. He had this idea of making a mixed government. At first he couldn't decide between the Federalists and Anti-federalists, but in the end he supported the Constitution and fought to get his states approval on it.
 * d. George Mason-**None he was against the Constitution and supported the Bill of Rights. He thought that their should be more monarchial power. He protected the Bill of rights because it provided individual freedom and he did not want the same government issues in England.
 * e. Alexander Hamilton-**He urged on the calling of the Constitutional Convention but played a small part since ha was frequently absent. he was the one who proposed creating a national bank,funding,debts,and encouraging of manufacturing.Yes, he was the only representative from his state to sign it.
 * f. William Patterson-** William Patterson did absolutely nothing towards the Constitutional Convention