Please read pages 159-166 in your textbook, and answer the following questions:
- What were the characteristics of the men who met at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia? What were their socio-economic backgrounds?
- What were the main positions of the Virginia and New Jersey Plans?
- How did the Great Compromise draw from those Plans?
- How did sectionalism and the issue of slavery influence the Constitution?
- List the provisions and the underlying principles of the U. S. Constitution.
- Explain the ongoing debate between historians over the motives of the men who framed the American Constitution.
- How has the debate over the origins of the Constitution mirrored the debate over the causes of the American Revolution?
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