Organizer 8 & 9

Philadelphia/Constitutional Convention 1787

• Held to improve economy

• Separation of powers / Checks & Balances

• Federalism

Great Compromise

• Va plan; Big state = More rep

• NJ plan; equal rep

• Bicameral Legislature

Demographics of Const. Convention

• All men

  • White

  • Land owning

  • & college educated

State Constitutions

• Strong legislatures & weak executives

• Bill of Rights

• Property & wealth qualifications (for voting)

Accomplishments of the Articles

• Rev. War & Treaty of Paris

• 1785 & 1787 Land ordinances

Failures of the Articles

• No taxation / revenue

• Interstate commerce/control

• Foreign trade

Foreign affairs (cont)

• Land disputes (MS river & florida) w Spain

• British still wouldn’t leave posts

Constitutional compromises

• Great

• Electoral College

• 3/5ths’s

• Slave trade (20 year prot)

Ratification of Const.

• Anti Federalists; State gov/ppl liberties

• Fed Papers - Talking to NY

• Checks/Balances/Federalism/Sep of powers

• Promise to add Bill or Rights