What did the founding father promise the people to gain support for the constitution?

Answer 1

I don't know which founding father you are referring to, but several concerns regarding perceived omissions from the Constitution were raised during the ratification process. Those states that had issues ratified the Constitution anyway with the understanding that those issues would be shortly addressed. During the first year that the Constitution was in effect twelve amendments were proposed which addressed the concerns raised during ratification. Ten of the twelve were ratified two years later and became known as the Bill of Rights. However, one of the twelve proposals, which keeps congressional pay raises from taking effect during the same term in which they are passed, took an additional 200 years to get ratified, and the other one, which sets the maximum population for a congressional district, a particular concern to the New York delegation, to this day has yet to be ratified. As a consequence, Congress got away with freezing the size of the House of Representatives at its 1913 level of 435 voting members in 1929, about a decade after completely disregarding their Constitutionally mandated responsibility of reapportioning the House after the 1920 census.

Some of the founding fathers thought that congressional districts could have populations as big as 50,000 or even 60,000, while others, like George Washington, thought each should be no bigger than 30,000 people. The proposed amendment would have started with a maximum district size of 30,000, and the maximum would have stepped up to 40,000 then 50,000 as the population reached 3,000,000 and 8,000,000 respectively. (A maximum of 30,000 would have been impossible in conjunction with the 30,000 minimum district size that is in the Constitution, but that point would have been moot because the first census counted over 3,000,000.) As of 2012, this is the first time in U.S. history that we have a congressional district with a population of over a million people (Montana At Large). The national average is more than 700,000 people per congressional district.