The Constitution

1.     George Washington, Ben Franklin, James Madison, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris, alexander Hamilton.

2.     They all had money and were involved in politics, educated.

3.     George Washington presided over their meetings, they agrees that the powers should be split in three legislative, judicial, executive. Limited how often states could coin money. Strengthen the government

4.     A strong national legislature with two chambers, a strong national executive to be chosen by the national legislator, a national judiciary to be appointed by the legislature. Large states favored it because they have a larger population.

B. New Jersey plan William Patterson wanted the states to have the same rights as the confederation each state gets one vote.

C. Connecticut legislative has two parts a house of representatives, with state representation passed on population. And a senate with two members from each state or more depends on population.

D. 3/5 the southern states wanted slaves to count as people to have better representatives the north disagreed so they made slaves 3/5 of a person.

E. Commerce and slave-trade compromise they decided not to ban slave trade until 1808 and forbid taxes on exports.

F. The slavery question the founders decided to leave it to later generations in fear of upsetting the south. South wanted help with runaway slaves

G. They would vote for the president rather than the people, but they can take it into effect. There an argument about how long the president can serve.

5.     There was no bill of rights and wanted it written down and wanted done just in case

6. Alexander Hamilton, John jay, James Madison

Ch.1 Sec.2 Answers

1.    The Iroquois confederation was a group of native Americans consisting of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida , Onondaga, and Seneca tribes which influenced American colonists to help form their government.
2.    sense the American colonists were about 3,000 miles away from Britain they could not take direct orders. So in a result they had to form their own government comprised of men the the people elected.

3.    After their french and Indian war King George III decided to tax the American colonists because the war was in part fought to protect the colonies. The colonists did not like this because they were used to not having to pay taxes.
4.    the king taxed all paper goods from legal documents to playing cards. After some time of this going on the the colonists became upset and thought that the tax was unjust. so in Boston a few men dressed as Mohawk Indians and threw the latest shipment of tea into the harbor as protest. the Stamp Act was later lifted and replaced with the Coercive Acts.

5.    The colonies unified against Britain and there harsh laws and taxes. The stamp act congress or first congress was comprised of representatives from the American colonies to protest the kings unfair taxes. the committees of correspondence was a shadow government fighting against what they thought was unjust. the first Continental congress did not allow trade with Britain. the second Continental congress managed the colonial war effort during the Revolutionary War they also appointed diplomats and created treaties.

6.    Thomas Paine wrote a famous pamphlet stating that people should have the right to govern themselves and that kings and queens shouldn't make laws the people should.

Creation of Colonial Government

            When the colonists first came to America, they already have an idea on what there government would look like. But they did not come up with it all on their own, they had some references the Magna Carta, English bill of rights, John Locke, as well as there own experiences.

            The Magna Carta was a contract between the king and the common people stating that the king couldn’t just do what ever he wanted to whom ever he wanted. So that he would not have absolute power over every thing. The Magna Carta influenced the English Bill of Rights in the way that it helped give people some rights as free men. Some of these rights carried over to the colonies one example is a fair trial by a jury by their peers.

            John Locke had some published writing about government and the rights of people. He writes that if a government is unjust and not fair that the people should have the right to change it for the better. As well as many other freedoms and liberties. John was very well known at the time and may new of him and his writings.

            Not only did people and famous documents influence the colonists but also by the circumstances that they had as well as where they were. Some one from out of the colonies could not govern them sense they were so far away from England so they had to govern themselves. So they made their own government led by selected individuals chosen by the people to represent them.

            The colonists did not have to entirely come up with their own government and help from many other writings and people.

The Three Branches of Government

Legislature - they can make laws, pass laws, impeach officials, and approve treaties.

Judicial - they interpret the constitution, review laws, and deciding cases involving state rights. they can be impeached by congress.

Executive - he can veto laws passed by congress, commander and chief of the armed forces, head of state, and able to sign legislation into law