What Was the Key Issue at the Constitutional Convention

question 120

Multiple Choice

What was the key issue at the Constitutional Convention?

• A) whether the new national government should be more or less powerful than the Confederation government.
• B) whether or not slavery should be abolished.
• C) how to balance the conflicting interests of large and small states.
• D) how to convince the general population to support a document written by the elite.
• E) when the new government could acquire additional territory.

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