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Why was the Connecticut compromise important to the set up of the constitution?
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What did the great compromise or Connecticut compromise decide?
The great Compromise, or Connecticut Compromise, set up Congress by havin a fight.
Proposed a two house legislature with the upper house having equal representation for each state?
The two-house legislature proposal was the Virginia Plan or the Randolph Plan proposed by Edmund Randolph. He was the?ægovernor of Virginia when the proposal was presented.
What did the great compromise provide for?
The Great Compromise in the Constitutional Convention provided that slaves who escaped from the South would be captured and brought back if found in the North. It also stated that slavery would not be able to expand to other states.
What is the Connecticut charter?
The Connecticut Charter was the agreement with the king and Parliment that set the laws, punishments etc. for the colony of Connecticut.
Uder the Connecticut compromise where did states have equal representation?
States have equal representation in the Senate, where there is a set amount of representatives for each state, rather than a varied number by population.
When was it decided to have House members according to population?
This was first decided back in the 18th century. To be exact, it was first addressed at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which eventually led to the Connecticut Compromise (or the Great Compromise) where equal representation among the thirteen existing states, at that time, would be represented in the House. The Constitution was ratified to reflect that in 1788; however, it was not implemented until March, 4, 1789. This is covered in Article 1, Section 2 of the US Constitution The number of representatives is currently set at a total of 435, that was established in 1911, to coincide with population growth, until briefly being set at 437 when Alaska was and Hawaii were entered into the mix in 1959, but four years later, the number was reset back at 435.
How was the great compromise important to the constitution convention?
It created a Congress system that both sides agreed to. Some states who had a lot of people, like Virginia, preferred to set up Congress based on population. Smaller states like Delaware didn't want that, because they didn't have a lot of people and would be drowned out by the larger states- so they wanted a system where every state had the same number of representatives. The Compromise fixed that - it set the Senate the way Delaware wanted it, but the House the way Virginia wanted it.
What compromise set up your present government?
caca
What did Elihu Yale do for Connecticut?
Set up a University
At what place were the first basic constitutional rights set out?
constitution constitution constitution
What was the Great Compromise and how was it important in the framing of the Constitution?
The Great Compromise took the ideas of the Virginia Plan (large state plan) and the New Jersey Plan (small state plan) and created a two house legislature (bicameral). The Senate would be made up of equal number of senators from each state, selected by the state legislatures. The House of Representatives would be elected by the people in each district and state, and based upon population representation. The more people living in the state, the more representatives the state would have. But even small states would be equally represented with the large states in the Senate. A bill would have to be approved by both houses before it became law. And only the House (the most representative of the people) could initiate money bills.
What did The Great Compromise provide?
The Great Compromise, also called the Connecticut Compromise, set up the U.S. Congress into 2 ruling groups (also called "bicameral legislature"). The first group is the House of Representatives, where the states with the largest populations get more representatives than states with small populations. The second group is called the Senate, where every state, regardless of its population, elects 2 representatives each. Together, the House of Representatives and the Senate are called the Congress.
