POSC 225 REVIEW ALL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔3- Inflamed opposition from small population states and "states rights" advocates -
✔✔-this triggered NJ Plan
✔✔NJ Plan - ✔✔-created quickly, so it had its own faults
-failed to specify executive and judiciary
-favored by smaller states bc wanted equal number of legislation for each state
✔✔Key Characteristic - ✔✔-create similar Congress as under AoC
-gave Congress power to tax
✔✔The Great Compromise - ✔✔-each side got one of the two legislative chambers
fashioned to its liking
-VA Plan got their legislature based on population (HoR lower chamber)
-NJ Plan got two delegates per state (Senate upper chamber)
-broad list of powers specified for Congress
✔✔What was gone? - ✔✔-unanimous agreement rule
-replaced by rule allowing majority of membership to pass legislation
✔✔The Fight for Ratification - ✔✔-Constitution adopted Sept. 1787 and sent to states
for ratification
-"The Ratification of the Constitution of 9 states, shall be sufficient for the est. of this
Constitution between the states..." Article VII
-9 so not unanimous
-convention withdrew authority from state legislatures
✔✔9th state ratified it in June of 1788 - ✔✔-NH was subsequently ratified by
-VA
-NY
-NC
, -RI
-VT in 1971
✔✔Federalist - ✔✔-pre-constitution
-modern D
✔✔Antifederalist - ✔✔-advocates of state sovereignty
-modern R
✔✔Federalist and Antifederalist Debate - ✔✔-state rights
-madison's move
-federalist essays
✔✔States Rights - ✔✔-antifeds argued that a country so large and diverse could not be
ruled by a single set of laws
-stronger nat'l gov't must come with safeguards against tyranny
✔✔Madison's made a strategic move - ✔✔-promised constitutional amendments that
would protect individual rights
-Bill of Rights was this promise
-added immediately after ratification
-promise and compromise
✔✔Federalist Essays/Papers - ✔✔-written to counter antifed arguments against
constitution
-85
-still today provides the genuine insight behind the meaning of constitution
-10 and 51
-Publius (anonomosly) by Jay, Hamilton, and Madison
✔✔DACA Update - ✔✔-family-based to skill-based
-bring me bipartisan deal and i'll sign it
-slightly limit chain-migration (current immigration system)
-eliminate 50,000 diversity green card lottery spaces (random)
-fund 1.6
✔✔Potential Deal - ✔✔-eliminate 50,000 diversity green card lottery spaces (random)
-fund 1.6 billion in border security
-dreamers legal status and eventually citizenship
-Trump rejected this
-complained about immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Africa
-he favors Rep.Bob Goodlatte's immigration bill
✔✔Timing - ✔✔-US District Court Judge temporarily blocked ending of DACA in March
-D not support long-term spending deal without DACA fix
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔3- Inflamed opposition from small population states and "states rights" advocates -
✔✔-this triggered NJ Plan
✔✔NJ Plan - ✔✔-created quickly, so it had its own faults
-failed to specify executive and judiciary
-favored by smaller states bc wanted equal number of legislation for each state
✔✔Key Characteristic - ✔✔-create similar Congress as under AoC
-gave Congress power to tax
✔✔The Great Compromise - ✔✔-each side got one of the two legislative chambers
fashioned to its liking
-VA Plan got their legislature based on population (HoR lower chamber)
-NJ Plan got two delegates per state (Senate upper chamber)
-broad list of powers specified for Congress
✔✔What was gone? - ✔✔-unanimous agreement rule
-replaced by rule allowing majority of membership to pass legislation
✔✔The Fight for Ratification - ✔✔-Constitution adopted Sept. 1787 and sent to states
for ratification
-"The Ratification of the Constitution of 9 states, shall be sufficient for the est. of this
Constitution between the states..." Article VII
-9 so not unanimous
-convention withdrew authority from state legislatures
✔✔9th state ratified it in June of 1788 - ✔✔-NH was subsequently ratified by
-VA
-NY
-NC
, -RI
-VT in 1971
✔✔Federalist - ✔✔-pre-constitution
-modern D
✔✔Antifederalist - ✔✔-advocates of state sovereignty
-modern R
✔✔Federalist and Antifederalist Debate - ✔✔-state rights
-madison's move
-federalist essays
✔✔States Rights - ✔✔-antifeds argued that a country so large and diverse could not be
ruled by a single set of laws
-stronger nat'l gov't must come with safeguards against tyranny
✔✔Madison's made a strategic move - ✔✔-promised constitutional amendments that
would protect individual rights
-Bill of Rights was this promise
-added immediately after ratification
-promise and compromise
✔✔Federalist Essays/Papers - ✔✔-written to counter antifed arguments against
constitution
-85
-still today provides the genuine insight behind the meaning of constitution
-10 and 51
-Publius (anonomosly) by Jay, Hamilton, and Madison
✔✔DACA Update - ✔✔-family-based to skill-based
-bring me bipartisan deal and i'll sign it
-slightly limit chain-migration (current immigration system)
-eliminate 50,000 diversity green card lottery spaces (random)
-fund 1.6
✔✔Potential Deal - ✔✔-eliminate 50,000 diversity green card lottery spaces (random)
-fund 1.6 billion in border security
-dreamers legal status and eventually citizenship
-Trump rejected this
-complained about immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Africa
-he favors Rep.Bob Goodlatte's immigration bill
✔✔Timing - ✔✔-US District Court Judge temporarily blocked ending of DACA in March
-D not support long-term spending deal without DACA fix
