Which statement best identifies John Jay’s contributions during the Founding Era?
a. He was a diplomat, helped write the Federalist Papers, and served as the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
b. He was influential in designing the executive branch of government and became the first professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania.
c. He was a Jeffersonian Republican who opposed slavery and advocated for a bill of rights.
d. He proposed the Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention that provided for a bicameral legislature with a lower house (the House of Representatives) based on population and an upper house (the Senate) based on equal representation of states.
1. He was a diplomat and political philosopher who helped Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence and served as the nation’s first vice president.
2. a constitutional principle that allows each branch of the government to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful
3. wanting to protect individual rights that a national government would not be able to protect.
4.He said the Declaration of Independence does not apply to enslaved persons, and it allows the U.S. to ignore slavery.
5. “...that all men are created equal...and are...endowed with...liberty...”
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