Constitutional Convention
3rd Period
Topics Covered:
VIRGINIA PLAN
1. Summarize the plan (What did the plan call for?)
VIRGINIA PLAN
2. How many branches were proposed?
--What are the branches' jobs?
VIRGINIA PLAN
3. How many houses in Legislative branch?
--What would they do?
1.they have two houses in the legislative branch the house of represenative and the congress.
2.house of represenative,they pass laws. the congress they make laws, and share powers with the president and supreme court.
sam miller
VIRGINIA PLAN
4. How are the number of representatives in each house decided?
They are decided by the size of the state . the larger the state is the more representatives it has.
Jalen Penn
VIRGINIA PLAN
5. Who supported it? (Types of states, Federalists or Anti-Federalists, specific political figures)
The larger states supported the Virginia Plan becuse it said that the larger the state the more representaives the state would have. Also Edmund Randolf and James Madison supported it. The Federalists supported the Virginia Plan because it would bring a strong natinol government.
Maggie Osborne
NEW JERSEY PLAN
1. Summarize the plan (What did the plan call for?)
NEW JERSEY PLAN
2. How many branches were proposed?
3 branches, legislative, executive, and judicial.
--What are the branches' jobs?
The legislature chooses people to work in the executive branch. The executive branch selects the justices of the
Supreme Court.
NEW JERSEY PLAN
3. How many houses in Legislative branch?
There is one branch.�--What would they do?
The legislative branch was in charge of making laws.
Madeline Naquin
NEW JERSEY PLAN
4. How are the number of representatives in each house decided?
The number of representatives in each house was decided
by the population. paublo
NEW JERSEY PLAN
5. Who supported it? (Types of states, Federalists or Anti-Federalists, specific political figures)
The small states supported the New Jersey Plan and the anti federalist the supported the New Jersey Plan also.
Jalen Christopher
GREAT COMPROMISE
1. Summarize the plan (What did the plan call for?)
- The Sherman and the Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Great compromise, wanted to create a two-house legislature. The House of Representatives, the lower house, were to be elected by popular vote. Roger Sherman wanted to combine the two ideas from the lager states and the smaller states so they could both get what they wanted and stop having disputes.
Zoee Alexandre
GREAT COMPROMISE
2. How many branches were proposed?
There are two branches
--What are the branches' jobs?
House of representatives and Senate-They help with running the federal goverment
-Senate is the upper house
-House of Representatives is the lower house
Meonna Caldwell
GREAT COMPROMISE
3. How many houses in Legislative branch?
The Legislative branch is a two-chambered congress made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
--What would they do?
They're responsible for creating federal/national laws.
By: Halle Barham
GREAT COMPROMISE
4. How are the number of representatives in each house decided?
-In the House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of states depending on the size of the Population.
GREAT COMPROMISE
Alot of the states wanted to have a bicameral congress where each state would get two senators to represent them in congrees and one represenative for each 30,000 peoples in the state.
Both small and larger states wanted this because it supported them both in what they wanted. Federalist supported this especially and the Anti Federalist didnt want this becuase none of the Bill of Rights had been written down on paper.
THREE-FIFTHS COMPROMISE
1. Summarize the plan (What did the plan call for?)
THREE-FIFTHS COMPROMISE
2. How were the number of representatives for each state decided?
The number of representatives for each state were decided by three fifths of the slaves in any state. So for every 5,000 slaves in a state, 3,000 of them would be counted in the state's population count.
Ally Ruggieri
THREE-FIFTHS COMPROMISE
3. Who supported the plan?
The southerners supported this plan because they wanted more representatives for the house of representatives. The southerners however did not want the slaves to be counted for tax assesment. The northerners completely opposed this idea. The northerners wanted the slaves to be counted for tax assesment but not representation.
-Tayyiba Shaik
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Tayyiba Shaik
THREE-FIFTHS COMPROMISE
4. Who would be affected by this plan?
- The Southerners: If slaves were included in population count, the southerners would have more power then the northern states.
- The Northern States: If southerners had a larger population, the north would have alot less control in the government.
And everyone invovled
with the U.S.
Government!
Abby Segerstrom
THREE-FIFTHS COMPROMISE
5. How will slaves be affected by this plan?
Slaves were affected by the Three-Fifths Compromise because according to the compromise, three-fifths of the slaves could vote. For example, if a state had 500 slaves, then 300 of them could vote. The slaves could only vote for topics concerning taxes and representation.
Julie Kim
THREE-FIFTHS COMPROMISE
6. What influence could this plan have on the future?
Slaves would've been counted for the population giving slave holding states more representatives under the Articles of Confederation.
eed for the population giving slave holding states more representatives under the Articles of Confederation.
FEDERALISTS
FEDERALISTS
2. What did they want?
FEDERALISTS
3. Why did they believe in this?
They thought that the constitution should be ratified because believed in a strong central governmentent because the country should be rule by a smart person that wouldn't be selfish like the king on England.
FEDERALISTS
4. Who were some of the most famous members?
Leaders among the federalists incuded two men who helped develop the constitution, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, and the two national heroes whose support would greatly improve the federalists' prospects for winning, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
Russell Miller 3rd period
FEDERALISTS
5. Look up their Federalist Papers
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ANTI-FEDERALISTS
Christopher Wang
ANTI-FEDERALISTS
2. What did they want?
The Anti-federalists wanted a government that would not OVERPOWER the states.
They also wanetd a weak government that would not threaten state's rights. As well as wanting this, they also wanted a Bill of Rights the would declare and promote thebasic rights of citizens.
- Josh Garms
ANTI-FEDERALISTS
3. Why did they believe in this?
The anti-federalists believed that the constitution left the national government with too much power and the the states to weak. They also thought that the constitution would give the President too much power. Most of the colonists thought that George Washington would be elected President. They liked Washington but they thought that future Presidents wouldnt have his skill and honor.
By: Gabi Figueroa
ANTI-FEDERALISTS
Famous Members
J.D. Nichols
Edmund Randolph
George Mason
Elbridge Gerry
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Samuel Adams
Richard Henry Lee
ANTI-FEDERALISTS
5. Antifederalists Papers
The Green Baron Michael LeBaron