II. A New Constitution
- Of the fifty five men who attended the Constitutional Congress, many of them were high ranking and highly educated, which was rare in a time were only .1% of Americans attended college. A. The Structure of Government
1. One of the main points that most of the men agreed upon while creating the new constitution was the fact that the United States would have three major branches of government, the judiciary, the executive, and the legislative branches.
a) The government would also represent the people along with the point that states couldn’t infringe on individual’s right to land.
b) Hamilton was in support of the idea that a president and Senate should serve life terms.
c) Many people wanted to find a middle ground between
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c) The Checks and Balances system is the way that the Constitution properly balances out the powers between the three branches of government to avoid corruption in any branch. D. The Debate over Slavery
1. The structure of government was not the only source of debate at the Constitutional Convention. As Madison recorded, “the institution of slavery and its implications” divided the delegates at many sessions.
a) When it came to levying taxes, Congress would count slaves as three fifths of a person when determining population. E. Slavery in the Constitution
1. The slavery clauses in the Constitution were designed upon compromise as to not upset states that were strongly for or against slavery.
a) After twenty years, Congress banned the importation of new African slaves on the first day they were allowed to.
b) The Constitution gave the national government no right to interfere with slavery and the term extraterritoriality was coined as this showed that even if slaves escaped they were still bound to their owner no matter where they escaped to. F. The Final