Constitution Compromises PDF

Directions: You’ll fill out this table using this slideshow. Color code (with highlighter or colored pencil). Be mindful for the colors in the slideshow: Blue → One side of the argument of debate Red → The other side debating the blue Yellow → the compromise that was made & how it was reflected...

Directions: You’ll fill out this table using this slideshow. Color code (with highlighter or colored pencil). Be mindful for the colors in the slideshow: Blue → One side of the argument of debate Red → The other side debating the blue Yellow → the compromise that was made & how it was reflected in our U.S. Constitution  Compromise #1: Virginia Plan - Called for: Three Branches of Gov’t Representation Made National Gov’t supreme over states Goal: Protect the large states’ interests Should a state’s representation New Jersey Plan - Called for: be based on population or Assure states with Sovereignty through equal representation for a state a national gov’t that was limited and regardless of size? defined powers No nat’l court system Each state = one vote in legislative body Groups Involved: Goal: Protect the small states’ interests Large States vs Small States Great Compromise (Connecticut) 2-House Congress composed of the House of Reps and the Senate  Compromise #1: Article I Section 1: Legislative Branch is Representation to be laid out between a House of Reps and a Senate Article I Section 2: Specifies how the Should a state’s representation House of Representatives is chosen. be based on population or equal representation for a state Article I Section 3: Specifies how the Senate is chosen. regardless of size? Article I Section 4: Grants states to be the ones to determine how Congressional elections are to be held Groups Involved: Large States vs Small States Article I Section 5-9: Jobs of the House & Senate  Since enslaved people didn’t have the Compromise #2: right to vote, non-slave states argued that slaves shouldn’t be counted in a state’s population. Slave states wanted Slavery to count slaves in their population because it would give them more representation (b/c they would have higher population). Should enslaved individuals count toward a state’s Compromise - Every 3 of 5 enslaved representation? people were counted towards the population. (⅗ Compromise) Other issues: Continue slave trade they wouldn’t Groups Involved: abolish the trade for 20 years after Southern States vs Northern States ratification of the constitution If non-slave states had extradite escaped slaves? drew out plan with extradition clause on how states can handle runaway slaves and fugitives  Compromise #2: Slavery Art. I, Section 9, Clause 1 - Legality of Should enslaved individuals slavery implicitly mentioned. Also it count toward a state’s allows the continuation of the slave trade representation? for an additional 20 years Art. IV, Section 2, Clause 3 - Extradition (escaped slaves had to be returned to home state) Groups Involved: Southern States vs Northern States  First of all, the debate was whether to Compromise #3: have a president / chief executive and HOW to elect such a person Office of the President Arguments: Should there be an executive… Congress should choose and should the executive be General population should choose chosen by a small elite or by a Compromise? The Electoral College popular vote? States could decide how their electors would be chosen. Each state would have the same number of electors that they Groups Involved: have representatives in congress… and Privileged Citizens vs Citizens of the people would vote for the electors lower socioeconomic status Have electors make the vote represents one way which the elite model of democracy helps shape our gov’t  Compromise? The Electoral College Compromise #3: States could decide how their electors are chosen. Each state would have the same Office of the President number of electors that they have representatives in congress… and the people would vote for the electors Should there be an executive… Have electors make the vote represents and should the executive be one way which the elite model of chosen by a small elite or by a democracy helps shape our gov’t popular vote? Map of 2020 Electoral Votes Groups Involved: Privileged Citizens vs Citizens of lower socioeconomic status Where in the Constitution? Art. II, Section 1  Compromise #4: The Articles of Confederation was a loose confederacy Federalism vs the need for a stronger central What is a fair division of power government between Federal and State governments? The Constitution will lay out many ways that the powers are SHARED between Federal and State governments Groups Involved: Strong Federal Government vs Location: 10th Amendment Strong State Government Location: Article IV Federalists vs Anti-Federalists  Compromise #4: Federalism After their struggle with British Government, the founders DID NOT Debate about the state WANT A REPEAT OF THE MONARCHY, so powers… and how were they they were reluctant to turn over powers to a central government besides the most resolved in the Constitution? basic essential powers… That’s why the powers of National Groups Involved: Legislature are limited and defined. Strong Federal Government vs Strong State Government Federalists vs Anti-Federalists