MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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Protecting individual liberties is the top priority.
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The national government needs to be strengthened.
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Larger states should have more power in a representative system.
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The public should be kept well-informed about all political decisions.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nearly all the delegates at the Convention would have agreed with which statement? The national government needs to be strengthened. How was Roger Sherman’s compromise fair to all states? It proposed equal representation in one house and representation based on population in the second house.
Detailed explanation-2: -The delegates generally agreed on the need for a separate executive independent of the legislature. (The executive would be called the “president.”) And they also agreed on giving the president the power to veto laws but only if his veto was subject to an override.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which statement about the delegates at the Constitutional Convention is accurate? The delegates considered each one of their states to be independent.
Detailed explanation-4: -Their so-called Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise in honor of its architects, Connecticut delegates Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth) provided a dual system of congressional representation. In the House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.