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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was eliminated from the Constitution draft?
2. How many delegates signed the Constitution?
3. What fear kept the delegates from approving the Constitution draft and going home?
4. What position did "Federal Farmer" take concerning the Constitution?
5. Who was "Brutus"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What positions did the delegates take on the election of the executive?
2. What was the Constitutional Convention's debate over the slave trade, and how was it resolved?
3. What was at issue as delegates debated the qualifications for suffrage?
4. What was Mr. Gerry's objection to the Constitution?
5. What position did "Centinel" take regarding the ratification of the Constitution?
6. What were the different views on the question of ratification of the Constitution?
7. Who objected to the Constitution and why did they object?
8. What did "Brutus" argue on the problem of representation in a large country?
9. What was added to the draft of the Constitution?
10. What did "Brutus" argue concerning standing armies?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explore the paradox that a government needs to be strong in order to protect the people from the government itself. How was this notion handled by the delegates at the Constitutional Convention? What allowances were made so that the government was neither too strong nor too weak? What allowances were made to protect individual freedom?
Essay Topic 2
How did the Constitutional Convention establish a strong federal government? Discuss three issues as evidence of the Constitutional Convention's centralization of power in the federal government.
Essay Topic 3
Who is articulating the Anti-Federalist platform today? Compare and contrast Anti-Federalists today and Anti-Federalists of the 1780s.
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