Virginia and Pennsylvania delegates argued that seats in the national legislature should follow population. Delaware and New Jersey delegates threatened to walk out unless every state had the same number. Which agreement gave each side one house?

Southern delegates wanted the enslaved population counted in full when House seats were handed out. Northern delegates said people held as property should not be counted at all. Which agreement settled how they would be counted?

Delegates from Virginia and Pennsylvania pressed for a Congress that could end the Atlantic slave trade. South Carolina and Georgia delegates answered that they would not join a union with that power. Which bargain settled the argument?

The convention argued all summer about who should pick the president and voted the question down again and again before a committee produced an answer in September 1787. What did the delegates finally adopt?

Some delegates wanted the upper house elected by the voters, like the lower house. Others said the states themselves had to have a hand in the new government or it would swallow them. How were senators to be chosen under the finished text?

James Madison pushed hard for a national legislature that could strike down any state law it disliked. Delegates who feared for their states refused. What device did the finished document use instead?

When the executive came up, some delegates wanted the office held by several men so no one person could grow into a king. Others insisted on one. How was the office written into the finished document?

Edmund Randolph opened the convention with a proposal for a legislature of two houses in which a state's share of seats in BOTH houses would rise with its population, plus a national executive and a national judiciary. Which plan was this?

On 15 June 1787 William Paterson answered with a proposal to keep a single-house Congress in which every state had one equal vote, while adding new powers to it. Which plan was this?

On 18 June 1787 one delegate spoke for hours for a plan built on the British model, with senators and an executive who would serve during good behavior rather than for a fixed term. Whose plan was it?

Paterson's plan would have kept the old single-house Congress but handed it a power the Articles of Confederation had denied it. Which power was that?

The Virginia Plan proposed a body it called a Council of Revision. What was this council supposed to do?

Twelve of the thirteen states sent delegates to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Which state sent none at all?

On 25 May 1787 enough delegates had reached Philadelphia for a quorum, and their first act was to choose a man to preside over the meeting. Whom did they choose?

Sentries stood at the doors of the Pennsylvania State House all summer and the windows stayed shut in the heat. Which rule were the delegates keeping?

Pennsylvania sent eight delegates to the convention and New Hampshire sent two. Under the rules the convention adopted, how were questions decided on the floor?

Thirty-nine men signed the finished document on 17 September 1787, but three delegates who were in the room that day refused to put their names to it. Who were the three?

The finished text directs that three fifths of a state's enslaved population be added to its free population when a certain count is made. What was that count used for?

Article I, Section 9 of the finished Constitution opens with a clause about "the Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit." What did that clause do?

Article IV, Section 2 of the finished Constitution deals with a "Person held to Service or Labour in one State" who escapes into another. What did it require?

The Constitution the delegates signed in 1787 deals with slavery in three separate places. How does the text refer to enslaved people in those clauses?

The delegates ended the fight over representation by splitting the difference between the two sides rather than choosing one. What did Article I of the finished document set up?

The bargain over representation also settled where money bills would begin, so that the house counted by population kept a hold on taxation. What does the finished text require of bills for raising revenue?

In return for letting Congress regulate trade by a simple majority vote, delegates from the rice and tobacco states won a permanent limit on the taxing power. What limit went into the finished document?

Delegates worried that an executive who abused the office could not be got rid of before his term ran out. What did the finished document provide?