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Chapter 2 Section 4. * Unicameral Congress with states equally represented * Congress given limited power to tax and regulate trade * Federal executive.

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1 Chapter 2 Section 4

2 * Unicameral Congress with states equally represented * Congress given limited power to tax and regulate trade * Federal executive of more than one person, chosen by Congress, could be removed by request of majority of States’ governors * Federal judiciary composed of a single “supreme tribunal” chosen by the executive branch

3 * Creation of legislative, executive, and judicial branches * Bicameral legislature, with each house based on population or money given to central government * House members popularly elected; Senators chosen by House from people nominated by state legislators * Congress held power to veto state law in conflict with national law, by force if necessary * Congress would choose a nation executive and nation judiciary to form a council of revision * Council could veto acts of Congress, but Congress could override * Congress would have exclusive power to admit new states

4 * Whether states would be represented equally or by population in Congress * Congress would be bicameral, with one house represented equally and the other by population

5 * How enslaved people should be counted in state populations to determine population * Three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining representation and taxation

6 * Whether Congress would have the power to regulated foreign and interstate trade, including the slave trade * The southern states agreed to support commerce power in exchange for an agreement that Congress could not tax exports from any state and could not interfere with the slave trade for at least 20 years


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