Caleb+Strong

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1787 was one of the most important years within our American history. This was the year the constitutional convention started. It took place in the Sate House, in Philadelphia and was the framing of the constitution. It took 55 delegates to frame the constitution and one of them was Caleb Strong. ======

[[image:consitution.jpg width="407" height="222" caption="Consituional Convention; 1787"]]

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Caleb Strong was born on January 9th, 1745. He was born and raised in Northampton, Massachusetts and was one of the first senators of Massachusetts. During of the duration of the revolution Caleb Strong was a member of Northampton’s safety committee. He held the job of county attorney for Hampshire county for about twentyfour years and was elected to Massachusetts General Court. ======

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Caleb successfully got the House of Representatives to originate all money bills and sat on the drafting committee. He was a Federalist and favored a strong centeral governmet. Strong also voted for equal representation within the Senate and proportional representation in the House of Representatives. Caleb was called home because a family member was ill, and was not there to sign the constitution. ======

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Caleb Strong was a big part of the constitution even thought he wasn’t actually there to sign it. On our last DBQ we discussed how tyranny was avoided while writing the constitution of the United States. Federalism was one of the main reasons tyranny did not take place in the constitution and the making of our government. Caleb Strong was a very strong Federalist. This means that he favored a strong central government. This means he was for the constitution, therefore why he took place in the constitutional convention. Caleb Strong was for a fair government and was 100% federalist. Caleb would stand behind the sharing of powers “bucket” in our DBQ. He voted in favor of equal representation in the Senate and proportional in the House of Representatives, even thought he favored a system of government that gave the same rank of election to both houses of congress. This is what also helped guard against tyranny. In the system of checks and balances, each of the parts of the government checks each other to make sure that we have a fair government. Caleb was one of the many people that were for the government and to make everything equal and make sure everything is fair. He successfully stated that the House of Representatives should originate all money bills and sat on the drafting committee for awhile, and was a big part of our government and the guard against tyranny while writing the constitution. The last of the buckets was “small and large states”. Caleb was a big supporter of all of the guards against tyranny and was again, a supporter of the thought of small and large states “idea”. Caleb wanted an equal government, and with the small and large states set up (two delegates per state) it was mostly fair for all of the government and who the government affected. Overall, Caleb agreed with all of the guards against tyranny that we discussed in our DBQ.

Present || Absent || Don't Know || Probally Absent || Caleb strong was present for most of the 89 days that the constitutional convention took place. However he was only present 33% of the whole time it took place. The reson Caleb was absent so much is that his wife went very ill during the end of the constitutional convention, and he had to go home to take care of her. He was not able to sign the Constitution of the United States for this reason.
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 * || Present || Probally
 * Act One || 5 || 14 || 2 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Act Two || 13 || 18 || 0 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Act Three || 8 || 8 || 5 || 0 || 2 ||
 * Act Four || 0 || 0 || 14 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Total || 26 || 40 || 21 || 0 || 2 ||
 * Percent || 29% || 45% || 24% || 0% || 2% ||

__PRIMARY SOURCES: CONSTITUTIONAL CONNECTION:__
__"Section 4:__ 1.) The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each Sate by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of choosing Senators. "

Caleb would most likely agree with this part of the constitution. I say this because, he was very involved in the Senate and voted various amounts of times to make sure that every part of the government is equal. He had a seat on the Senate and voted for equal representation for the senate and proportional representation for the House of Representatives. __BILL OF RIGHTS:

THE SIXTH BILL OF RIGHTS : FEDERALISIM.__ I believe that this would be one one of the bills of rights that Caleb Strong would agree with. Out of all the information i have gathered about Caleb Strong there is one thing that has stodd out to me. He was a very strong Federalist. A federal system of government is when the power is divided between the centeral government and other small governments. Because Strong was a federalist he was for the constituion and actively took place in the constituional convention. I think that if any Bill of Right, he would choose this one to most likely agree with.

__WORKS CITED:__ 1.) "Founding Fathers Biographies." //Laughter and Lawter Genealogy Research Center//. NARA. Web. 05 May 2010. .  2.)  "Caleb Strong." //Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia//. Wikipedia. Web. 05 May 2010. . 3.) "Google Image Result for Http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/caleb_strong.jpg." //Google Images//. Philidelphia Reflections. Web. 04 May 2010. .