Constitutional Convention Debates 2.2 notes

The House of Representatives is representation based on population

What is the House of Representatives?

The Senate is when each state had equal representation

What is the Senate?

The Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan

What are the two plans emerged on how the houses should be represented

The Virginia Plan is favored by large states, it based representation on population size

What is the Virginia Plan?

The New Jersey Plan is favored by small states, it gave each state an equal number of votes

What is the New Jersey Plan?

The Three Fifths Compromise resolved a major conflict by counting three-fifths of enslaved people toward state populations

What is the Three Fifths Compromise?

The Three Fifths Compromise aligned Southern and large states in favor of proportional representation

What aligned Southern and large states in favor of proportional representation?

Debates over representation at the Constitutional Convention led to conflict, with smaller states like Delaware threatening to leave

What resulted in Delaware threatening to leave?

The compromise was proposed by Connecticut delegates who split Congress into two houses: The House of Representatives and Senate

What is the Great Compromise?

This agreement, known as the Great Compromise, satisfied both large and small states, giving each part of what they wanted

Was the Great Compromise successful?

The Supremacy Clause was added, establishing federal law as the “supreme law of the land” over state laws

What is the Supremacy Clause?

The executive veto is the power the president has to reject laws

What is the executive veto?

The veto could be overriden by a 2/3 vote in Congress

What could the executive veto be overriden by?

To remove a corrupt president, the impeachment process was created, requiring a trial in Senate

Why was the impeachment process created?

Impeachment does not remove a president —- it only leads to removal if convicted of a crime

Does impeachment remove a president?

A electoral college is where each state’s electors cast votes for the president

What is an electoral college?

Senate was given the power to federal judges and Supreme Court justices

Who was given the power to appoint federal judges and Supreme Court justices?

The amendment system allowed the Constitution to be changed when needed

What did the amendment system allow for the Constitution?

The dual system ensured the federal government couldn’t change laws too easily or dominate states

What is the dual system and what does it allow?