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1.5 Ratification of the U.S. Constitution

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Question 1

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Which judgment best reflects the chapter's treatment of compromise at the Convention?

The Connecticut settlement reconciled competing claims about representation across two chambers. The slavery-related bargains had a different moral and political character: they protected coercion and increased the governing influence of slaveholding states without empowering enslaved people.
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B. Some bargains reconciled competing institutional claims, while slavery-related bargains secured agreement by protecting bondage and enlarging slaveholding power

The Connecticut settlement reconciled competing claims about representation across two chambers. The slavery-related bargains had a different moral and political character: they protected coercion and increased the governing influence of slaveholding states without empowering enslaved people.

Question 2

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State A and State B have equal free populations, but State A also enslaves a large population. Under the original apportionment formula, State A receives additional House seats. Which conclusion is most accurate?

The enslaved population did not receive votes or control the added seats. The state's voting electorate and officeholders gained House representation and, through the electoral formula, additional presidential influence based on people held in bondage.
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C. State A's electorate and political leaders gained representation based partly on people whom the state denied political rights

The enslaved population did not receive votes or control the added seats. The state's voting electorate and officeholders gained House representation and, through the electoral formula, additional presidential influence based on people held in bondage.

Question 3

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Delegates create a House apportioned by population and a Senate in which every state has two senators. Which dispute does this arrangement most directly resolve?

The Connecticut Compromise placed population and state equality in separate chambers. It addressed the large-state-small-state dispute, not the distinct questions of slavery, commerce, executive selection, or supremacy.
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D. Whether representation should follow population, state equality, or a combination of both

The Connecticut Compromise placed population and state equality in separate chambers. It addressed the large-state-small-state dispute, not the distinct questions of slavery, commerce, executive selection, or supremacy.

Question 4

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Congress enacts a law in 1795 prohibiting the importation of enslaved people into every state. Which constitutional provision most directly creates a problem for that law?

The Migration or Importation Clause prevented Congress from prohibiting the international slave trade before 1808. The Commerce Clause granted foreign-commerce authority, the Export Clause concerned duties on exports, and neither the Three-Fifths nor Fugitive Slave Clause supplied the relevant date restriction.
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A. The Migration or Importation Clause barred Congress from prohibiting the international trade before 1808

The Migration or Importation Clause prevented Congress from prohibiting the international slave trade before 1808. The Commerce Clause granted foreign-commerce authority, the Export Clause concerned duties on exports, and neither the Three-Fifths nor Fugitive Slave Clause supplied the relevant date restriction.

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