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Representation, population!
Delegates convened the Constitutional Convention to establish a better government and update ideas found in the Articles of Confederation. A growing population as well as lack of control over changing territories were major factors in choosing to meet in 1787.
The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise reached between delegates from southern states and those from northern states during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. The debate was over if, and if so, how, slaves would be counted when determining a state's total population for constitutional purposes.
(1787) Agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention stating that three fifths of the slaves in each state should be counted as part of the state's population for determining representation in the lower house of Congress.
delegates at the constitutional convention of 1787 agreed to the three-fiths compromise as a way slaves were counted in determining a state's congressional delegation.
no, the people who attended the constitutional convention were the aristocratic elite of the American population.
The primary conflict of the Constitutional Convention was settling how states would be represented in Congress and whether this would be an equal number or vary based on population. The Connecticut Compromise resolved this issue.
The Great Compromise
They supported a government that had equal representation for all states and had a one house legislature so states with more population wouldn't get more representation in the government
The most serious disagreement in the debate between large and small states at the Constitutional Convention was the issue of representation. Small states feared that their voices would be lost if representatives were chosen based on population, while big states didn't think it was fair that the small states would have as much influence as they had.
The plan that based representation in the U.S. Congress on population was the Virginia Plan, also called the Large State Plan. It was written by James Madison and proposed at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.