Place a check mark next to points we fully adopted in our government. (Fully means ALL. If we only adopted some of that point, leave it blank.

Question 27 options:

a)

Enlarge and correct the Articles of Confederation to accomplish the goals of common defense and general welfare, and secure liberties


b)

Number of representatives in the national legislature should be determined by state contributions to national revenue or the number of free inhabitants


c)

Create two branch national legislature


d)

First branch of national legislature has proportional representation


e)

Second branch of national legislature elected by members of the first branch


f)

Each branch can begin the legislative process; make laws that affect the entire nation; veto state laws; call out the militia to enforce laws against the states


g)

Create a national executive, chosen by the national legislature; job is to execute the national laws and enjoy executive rights as vested by Congress


h)

National executive and judiciary forms a Council of Revision to examine legislative acts and have a final veto, unless the legislature overrides the veto


i)

Create a national judiciary with a supreme court and lower courts created by the national legislature; hold offices during good behavior (life); hear cases regarding piracy, enemy captures, cases involving foreigners and citizens of multiple states, or cases regarding collection of national revenue, impeachment, or national peace and harmony


j)

Procedures to admit new states


k)

The guarantee of a republican government in each state or territory


l)

How to continue Congress until the new document is ratified


m)

Provision for amending the new document


n)

The government branches in the states should take an oath to support the new document


o)

The amendments that are made by the convention/this new document should be voted on by an assembly chosen by the people specifically for that purpose