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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did James Madison argue during the argument over representation by person or by state?
(a) The ruling classes would benefit by representation by state.
(b) The populace would not be served by state representatives.
(c) Popular sovereignty argued for representation by person.
(d) Fairness argued for representation by state.

2. What did George Mason say he feared, in his argument on June 4?
(a) That government will not have enough funding.
(b) That government will degenerate into a tool of businesses.
(c) That government will degenerate into monarchy.
(d) That government will degenerate into mob rule.

3. Which constituents did Dr. Johnson want to placate with the plan he advocated?
(a) The upper classes.
(b) Small states.
(c) Federalists.
(d) Foreign diplomats.

4. What did George Mason argue in the debate of June 4?
(a) He argued against a unified executive.
(b) He argued for an appointed executive.
(c) He argued for an elected executive.
(d) He argued for a unified executive.

5. What were the delegates' intentions when they argued for election of Senators from state legislatures?
(a) Creating a check against popular democracy.
(b) Insulating the federal government from individuals in the states.
(c) Raising the Senate above popular opinion.
(d) Improving upon the process by which the people were represented.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Madison stress in his letter to George Washington?

2. What did James Madison argue with relation to the New Jersey Plan?

3. Where do delegates think that authority needs to originate in order to be legitimate?

4. What did Gouverneur Morris advocate about executive veto power?

5. What kind of representation did James Madison advocate?

(see the answer key)

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