William+Blount's+Delegate+Profile

=**__William Blount__**= toc

__Profile Questions__

 * Question: How about a brief biography? What is your background? **
 * Answer: I was born in 1749, while my mother was visiting my grandfather. I recieved a good education. In 1776, I signed up to be a paymaster for North Carolina. After I wed Mary Grainer (Granger) I had six children. I spent most of my life in a public office, including being in the lower house of the North Carolina legislature. I was 38 when appointed to the Constitutional Convention. I missed the first month or so because I chose to attend the Continental Congress. I didn't speak much during the convention, in fact hardly at all. I signed the constitution to make it "the unaminous act of the States in Convention." After the convention, I wanted to be elected to US senate. I eventually did, but got impeached due to my interests in western lands. I died in Knoxville in 1800, in my early fifties. **


 * Question: Which should be stronger, the state government or the national government? Why? **
 * Answer: The national government should be stronger than the state government because without a strong national government we cannot enforce taxes or trade with other nations. We need to do these things to have a better country. Otherwise if we have a stronger state government we won't be powerful enough to do any of these things. This includes dealing with rebellions, such as Shay's Rebellion. **


 * Question: How should we determine the representation of the states in Congress? By population, money, equality...? **
 * Answer: We should determine representation by population because bigger states have more of the population. This means they have more opinions and more people. If we did it by equality smaller states may not have enough people to be worthy to be in the Congress. **


 * Question: Who should vote for the members of the legislature, and why? **
 * Answer: I think there should a be a bicameral legislative that has the lower half voted by people, and the upper half by the lower half. This way the people can elect a worthy member to be in the lower house. The lower house would already be educated people and would be exactly right to pick the upper house. **


 * Question: Should we have one or more than one chief executive? Why? **
 * Answer: We should have one chief executive, but he cannot have absolute power. This way other parts of the government could point out if he is doing the right or wrong thing for our country. If we had more than one, one might want more control than the other. **


 * Question; What kind of powers should the Chief Executive or Executives have? **
 * Answer: They should be able to declare war on a country or be able to veto a law. **


 * Question: Who should elect the chief executive(s)? **
 * Answer: I think white males over the age of 21 should vote for the chief executive. **


 * Question: What should be done about slavery in the United States? Should it be kept or outlawed? **
 * Answer:It should be kept. It is a large part of the southern states economy as well as North Carolina. If they outlawed slaves it would hurt our economy. **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Question: Should slaves count in the population toward representation? Why or why not? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Answer: Yes I think they should. This would also help us in being a bigger part of the legislature, if the lower house was to be represented based on population. They are a large part of our economy, and without them many of our crops would be lost. **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Question: Should the national government be able to regulate the commerce of the United States? Why or why not? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Answer: Yes the national government should be able to if they have more power than the state government. This would help us with the large debt we own from the war we just fought. We need a strong national government to lead our nation. **

__Friends__

 * William Richardson Davie
 * Alexander Martin
 * Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr.
 * Hugh Williamson
 * Benjamin Franklin
 * George Washington.

__Groups__

 * Slavery
 * Big States
 * US Senate

Work Sited

 * "America's Founding Fathers - Delegates to the Constitutional Convention." //National Archives and Records Administration//