Constitutional Convention by https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf The Constitution, Government, and more!!! en-us 2016-09-07 12:16:48 UTC 2023-02-02 20:12:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png May 14th, 1787 nicholas_viardo https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122070625 The Constitutional Convention began.
  • The Convention would then span over four months, deciding the fate of this country from that point on.
  • 55 delegates
]]> 2016-09-07 12:25:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122070625 The Delegates blake_barnes https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122072872 55 delegates went to the convention 
  •  - Richard Henry Lee (Virginia),
  •  Thomas Nelson (Virginia),
  •  Patrick Henry (Virginia),
  •  Abraham Clark (New Jersey)
  • , John Neilson (New Jersey), 
  • Richard Coswell (North Carolina), 
  • Willie Jones (North Carolina),
  •  George Watson (Georgia), 
  • Nathaniel Pendleton (Georgia),
  •  Henry Laurens (South Carolina),
  •  Francis Dana (Massachusetts), 
  • Gabriel Duvall (Maryland), 
  • Robert Hansen Harrison (Maryland), 
  • Thomas Stone (Maryland),
  • Charles Caroll (Maryland),
  •  Thomas Sim Lee (Maryland),
  •  John Pickering (New Hampshire),
  •   Benjamin West (New Hampshire).
]]> 2016-09-07 12:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122072872 The Basic Rules of the Convention nicholas_viardo https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122073478
  • The Convention elected officers. (Washington as President), (William Jackson as Secretary), a committee (Wythe, Hamilton, and C. Pinckney) to prepare rules.
  •  1) a quorum required a majority of states,
  •  2) each state was allotted one vote 
  • 3) the voting was to be by states and not by individuals, 
  • 4) each state could send up to seven delegates, 
  • 5) each state sets its own internal quorum requirements.
  • (Ben Franklin was Philidelphia's honorary 8th delegate)
    • ]]>     2016-09-07 12:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122073478     Where the Convection was held blake_barnes https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122080823
  • Philadelphia

    • ]]>     2016-09-07 12:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122080823     The First Major Proposal, The Virginia Plan nicholas_viardo https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122081666
  • The Plan proposed called for a strong three branch government. This included the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Branches.
  • The Judicial Branch was to keep the Legislative and Executive Branches within the confines of the law.
  • Executive was to enforce the laws the legislative branch makes.
  • The Legislative Branch was to make the laws to maintain order throughout the country.
  • In the Virginia Plan, the amount of  people in the state determined how  many representatives each state got in the new government
    • (See The Three Fifths Compromise)
    ]]>     2016-09-07 12:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122081666      Anti Federalist  blake_barnes https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122394904 They were opposed to the government  gaining more power. They opposed  it because they were afraid the government  would become a tyrannical  just like the British Monarchy.  ]]> 2016-09-08 12:24:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122394904 The Three Fifths Compromise nicholas_viardo https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122395354 In the Virginia Plan, the amount of  people in the state determined how  many representatives each state got in the new government.  SO this angered many smaller states. Then, The three fifths compromise proposed that instead as counting as just property, slaves would count as three fifths of a person. this would even out the imbalance that would be in the government.]]> 2016-09-08 12:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122395354 Federalist blake_barnes https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122399600  Federalists felt that this addition wasn't necessary, because they believed that the Constitution as it stood only limited the government not the people.]]> 2016-09-08 12:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122399600 The Signing of The U.S. Constitution nicholas_viardo https://padlet.com/nicholas_viardo/8i5hcmsja6wf/wish/122399655 The US Constitution was signed by 39 delegates of those present on the final day of the convention. It was signed on September 17th, 1787
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