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Date Posted: 23:18:07 09/24/02 Tue
Author: Jordan
Subject: Ch.6 A Divided Convention

I. A Divided Convention
A.founding fathers were 55 educated men who were all products of the American Revolution and retained the revolutionary suspicion of concentrated power
1. the convention chose George Washington to preside over all convention meetings.
a.unlike congress, the convetion used majority rule
2.James Madison shows plan for new "national" government and Virginians used it to control the agenda from when the convention began
3.Edmund Randolph fo Virginia proposed, in addition to the national government, that 3 branches be represented, the legislative, executive and judicial.
B.Madison, in turn, comes up with The Viginia Plan
1.Virginia Plan woul devide the new national legislative into two houses, the lower and the upper.
-lower house voted on members of upper house and since there were no represntaive rules, no state was guaranteed to have representation in the upper house.
2. William Patterson then comes up with a "federal" plan for government
a. In Pattersons plan, each state had equal representation, but it gave Congress expanded powers to tax and regulate commerce.
-in he end the delagates nixed Pattersons proposal, but took into consideration how much the saller states approved of it
3. in the end, the Convention voted to keep the Virginia plan but revise it so the members of the upper house were elected buy state legislature, to ensure equal state representation
C.Remaining Questions
1.Would the states be equally represented in the upper house, or would the large states have more memeber than the small ones? Would slaves count in population counts even though they could not vote and were considered property?
-many states wanted slaves to be counted if it meant larger representation at the convention, but did not want slave to count if the government were to levy taxes based on population.
-no one went to great lengths to fight for or against slaves in the matters of government

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