II Origins of American Government Unit 2 Foundations

II. Origins of American Government Unit 2: Foundations of American Government

Bellringer �Go over Unit 2 Online Assignment 1

Objectives �Identify the Framers of the Constitution and discuss how they organized the Philadelphia Convention. �Compare and Contrast the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan. �Summarize the convention’s major compromise and the effects of those decisions. �Describe the delegates’ reactions to the Constitution.

IV. Creating the Constitution �The Summer of 1787 - hot

A) The Framers �All but Rhode Island �“an assembly of demi-gods” �Framers – people who attended the Constitution Convention and wrote the Constitution �Page 52 -53 who were they? �“I smell a rat”

B) Organization and Procedure �Met in same place the Declaration had been signed �George Washington picked to be President of the Convention �On 5 th day decided to abandon the Articles

C) Proposals �The Virginia Plan – 3 branches, bicameral house, lower house elected by population then picks the upper house, states must support union, very powerful government �The New Jersey Plan – unicameral Congress based on equality, power to tax, regulate trade �The big fight was over population verses equality – almost unraveled.

D) Compromises � Connecticut Compromise – (Great Compromise) solved the legislature issue – decided that the lower house would be voted on by the people and based on population who would then pick the upper house based on equality � 3/5 s compromise – do slaves count towards population count? – count as 3/5 s of a person � Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise – no law on slavery for 20 years (give it time) and exports can’t be taxed � Smaller ones – how President elected, structure of Congress, limits on the new central government � Franklin motioned to approve the new Constitution – picture then setting Sun.

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