Presidential Elections

council of revision could review and reject laws.

The New Jersey Plan was more similar to the articles of confederation. The New Jersey Plan let Congress tax and regulate trade. Each state would have one vote in Congress. The New Jersey plan proposed an Executive branch of many people chosen by Congress. The judiciary would be appointed by the Executive branch. The New Jersey plan said that laws and treaties made by Congress were the supreme law of the land.

The great compromise is also called the Connecticut compromise. The great compromise gave Congress the power of the legislature. Congress was to be made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The House was to be directly elected by the people of the state. Each state would get representatives based on population. Each state would have two senators.

The three fifths compromise helped determine how to count slaves when figuring out how many representatives each state received. Five slaves would equal three free people. Congress did not end the international slave trade until eighteen oh eight.

Presidential Elections

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The framers of the constitution were scared of mob rule and did not want the public to elect a president directly. The Electoral College let the states appoint electors based on the number of representatives in Congress. The electors would vote for two people. The person with the most votes would