MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION THE GREAT COMPROMISE
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New Jersey Plan
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Virginia Plan
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Three-Fifth Compromise
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The Great Compromise
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Virginia Plan, drafted by James Madison and introduced to the Convention by Edmund Randolph on May 29, 1787, proposed the creation of a bicameral national legislature, or a legislature consisting of two houses, in which the “rights of suffrage” in both houses would be proportional to the size of the state.
Detailed explanation-2: -Their so-called Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise in honor of its architects, Connecticut delegates Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth) provided a dual system of congressional representation. In the House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population.
Detailed explanation-3: -The South wanted all persons, including slaves, counted as full people in the census which gave them an unfair advantage in population. The north wanted slaves excluded from the population for the purposes of representation and both sides settled on the 3/5ths counting of slaves.
Detailed explanation-4: -Historians often credit Sherman and the Connecticut delegates as the architects of the Great Compromise.