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| What were the characteristics of Georgia's Constitution of 1777? | show 🗑
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| Why did Georgia's Constitution of 1777 create a weak government? | show 🗑
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| show | It had a bicameral legislature named the General Assembly. The two houses were the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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| show | no executive or judicial branch; power was too limited (e.g., no power to tax or settle disputes between states)
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| show | Abraham Baldwin and William Few
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| show | Articles of Confederation were too weak and the Confederation government could not unify the states into one nation. This meeting actually resulted in writing an entirely new Constitution.
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| show | 4th;Georgia wanted to know it could count on a national government for protection.
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| show | Virginia Plan – bicameral legislature; representation based on population or proportional representation ; larger states favored this planNew Jersey Plan – unicameral legislature; equal representation or one vote per state; small states favored this plan
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| Solution: What compromise did the delegates create to resolve the issue of state representation?(key terms: The Great Compromise) | show 🗑
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| C. Problem: How Should Slaves Be Counted? (Key terms: northern and southern states) | show 🗑
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| show | Three-Fifths Compromise, the totalnumber of free persons would becounted, but only three-fifths of allother persons (slaves) would becounted.
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| show | Debate: should Congress or the people elect the president?
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| show | Electoral College: The people will indirectly select the president by voting for electors; each state could select as many electors as it had members of Congress (House and Senate). The person who received the highest number of votes (provided it was a ma
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| Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution? | show 🗑
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