14 constitutional convention

CONVENTION

-May 1787 Philadelphia

-12 of 13 states

Rhode Island absent

-55 Delegates

DECISIONS MADE

-rewrite gov’t

-1 vote per state

-keep meeting a secret

-majority rules

ISSUES AT DEBATE

-representation

large states

small states

-slavery

-economics

PLANS PROPOSED

-Virginia Plan

-James Madison

-3 branches

-bicameral Congress

-population based

-New Jersey Plan

-small state plan

-equal voting

-group executive

-promoted state’s rights

COMPROMISES

-Great Compromise

-Agreement made at theConvention of 1787 thatcreated a two houselegislature with one housebased on population and theother based on state equality

- House

-Senate

Roger Sherman

COMPROMISES

-3/5 Compromise

-Agreement made at theconvention of 1787 that slaveswould count as 3/5 a personfor the census to determinethe population of each state

-Slave Trade Compromise

-Agreement at the conventionof 1787 that Congress wouldnot tax exports and slavetrading could be banned in 20years

NEW GOV’T

-much stronger

-power to tax

-regulate trade

-strong executive

-needed 9 of 13 to ratify

NEW GOV’T

-much stronger

-power to tax

-regulate trade

-strong executive

-needed 9 of 13 to ratify

RATIFICATION-Federalists

-Political group who supportedthe passage of the newConstitution and its strongergovernment

-Anti-Federalist

-Political group who opposedthe new Constitution andthought it lacked a specific listof people’s rights

-Federalist Papers support thenew government

-written by Hamilton, Madison,and Jay

-Bill of Rights promised

RATIFICATION-Federalists

-Political group who supportedthe passage of the newConstitution and its strongergovernment

-Anti-Federalist

-Political group who opposedthe new Constitution andthought it lacked a specific listof people’s rights

-Federalist Papers support thenew government

-written by Hamilton, Madison,and Jay

-Bill of Rights promisedPatrick Henry