Creation of the Constitution

Orientation and Getting Started

The Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution

The Creation of the Constitution

The Road to Philadelphia

Shays’ Rebellion and the Annapolis Convention

3 Topics

The Articles of Confederation

Rebels in Massachusetts

Madison Prepares for Annapolis

Madison Prepares for Philadelphia

3 Topics | 1 Quiz

Madison’s Preparations

“Notes” and “Vices”

The Virginia Plan

Quiz: The Road to Philadelphia

Federalism

Federalism and Nationalism

1 Topic

Scrapping the Confederation

A Federal Veto and Prohibitions on State Powers

1 Topic

Madison and the Federal Veto

Enumerated Powers and the Supremacy Clause

3 Topics | 1 Quiz

Supremacy and the National Government

Enumerating the Powers of Congress

The Necessary and Proper Clause

Federalism Quiz

Congress

The Great Compromise

3 Topics

Competing Views of Justice, Nationalism, and Federalism

Political Maneuvering at the Convention

Reaching the Great Compromise

The Houses of Congress

3 Topics | 1 Quiz

Electing Members of an Upper and Lower House

The Size and Membership of Congress

The Powers of Each House

Slavery and the Constitution

The Slavery Compromises

3 Topics

The Context of Slavery

Beyond the Constitution

A State Institution

The Three-Fifths Compromise

3 Topics

The Problem Posed by Slavery

The 20-Year Compromise and the Fugitive Slave Clause

3 Topics | 1 Quiz

The Slave Trade under the Articles of Confederation

Reaching Resolution

Reaction to the 20-Year Compromise

Slavery and the Constitution

The Presidency

A New Executive

1 Topic

A New Kind of Executive

The Powers of the President

3 Topics

Domestic Powers

Foreign Relations Powers

Selecting the President

2 Topics | 1 Quiz

Selecting the Executive

Making the President Independent

The Presidency Quiz

The Federal Judiciary

Jurisdiction and Juries

3 Topics

Creating a Federal Judiciary

Judges: Tenure, Salary, and Selection

3 Topics

The Council of Revision and Judicial Review

1 Topic | 1 Quiz

The Council of Revision & Judicial Review

The Federal Judiciary Quiz

Some Other Important Details

Features Borrowed from the Articles of Confederation

6 Topics

Building on the Foundation of the Articles of Confederation

Prohibitions on the States

Full Faith & Credit

Prohibitions on the States

The Powers of Congress

Free Speech, Prior Debts, and the Supremacy Clause

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Slavery and the Constitution

Creation of the Constitution The 20-Year Compromise and the Fugitive Slave Clause Slavery and the Constitution

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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
For the most part, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention:
- Were all slaveholders who sought to protect the institution.
- Were almost all abolitionists who were prevented from abolishing slavery in the Constitution only by a few staunch protectors of slavery from the south.
- A mix of slaveholders and non-slaverholders who were conscious of the constraining factors they faced when dealing with the question of slavery, and who struck a balance on the issue to preserve the union as a whole under a new Constitution.
- Ambivalent about the moral issues posed by slavery.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
The word “slave” or “slavery” does not appear in the Constitution.
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
The Three-Fifths Clause:
- Stated that the approval of three-fifths of the States would be necessary to approve to the proposed Constitution instead of the unanimity required by the Articles of Confederation.
- Stated that enslaved persons would count for three-fifths of a free person for the purposes of representation and taxation and was instituted because the delegates on the whole thought that slaves were only about three-fifths people.
- Stated the enslaved persons would count for three-fifths of a free person for the purpose of representation and taxation and was instituted as a compromise between northern and southern delegates to settle the question of the larger population in the South as a result of slavery.
- Stated that enslaved persons would count for three-fifths of a free person for the purposes of representation and taxation and was instituted to boost representation for the South to make up for giving the smaller, northern states equal representation in the senate.
- Levied a navigation tax on the importation of slaves at three-fifths their value until 1808.
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
Which provision was offered by Charles Pinckney to help protect southern interests after the 20-year compromise allowed Congress to abolish the slave trade in 1808?
- The Three-Fifths Clause.
- The Fugitive Slave Clause.
- The admission of new southern states quickly after the Constitution was ratified.
- A permanent, un-amendable ban on abolishing slavery.
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
Which two delegates felt that the resolution questions of the slave trade and navigation acts were damning to the new Constitution?
- George Mason and Edmund Randolph.
- James Madison and James Wilson.
- James Madison and James Wilson.
- Charles Pinckney and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
- Gouverneur Morris and Oliver Ellsworth.
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