1. Chapter 7: Hammering Out a Federal Republic Debates and Division over the Constitution

2. Review: Constitutional Compromises The Great Compromise (Virginia Plan vs. New Jersey Plan) Three-Fifths Compromise and Slavery Election of the President (Electoral College) The Bill of Rights (Limits on the Federal Government)

3. Who Supported the Constitution? Generally, backcountry delegates were Antifederalists, while those from coastal areas were Federalists.

4. Who Supported the Constitution? Key states who were reluctant to ratify were Massachusetts, New York and Virginia. The Bill of Rights and Federalist Papers were key to ratification.

5. The Federalist Number 10: James Madison argued that the majority would not come to oppress the minority in a large republic, because competing factions would keep any one special interest from dominating. As you read the Chapter- to what extent was this argument correct?

6. 6 Principles of the Constitution:

7. As you read the Chapter- how are each of the principles “hammered out” or how are they left unresolved?

8. Interpreting the Constitution: Loose Interpretation: “implied powers” Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists Strict or Constructionism: “express powers” Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans

9. Hamilton’s Financial Program: Assumption of Public Debt Creation of National Bank Raising Revenue through Tariffs

10. Constitutionality of Hamilton’s Program: Jefferson argued a strict interpretation: The Bank was not expressly “delegated to the United States by the Constitution.” Hamilton argued a loose interpretation: Article 1, Section 8: make “all Laws which shall be necessary and proper”