At the Constitutional Convention of 1787 serious differences about representation were resolved by creating a bicameral legislature.
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The delegates to the Constitutional Convention originally met to reform the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation were the guidelines for the first national government of the United States. However, they were weak and did not give enough power to the national government so that it was able to hold all of the separate states together. That is why they wanted to reform it. When they started the convention, they discovered that since the Articles of Confederation were so fundamentally flawed it would be better to just come up with an entirely new form of government. So they created the Constitution of the United States of America, which is still used today.
Congress called for the convention, pressured by several states, to deal with the problems the country was facing due to the Articles of Confederation. The states then sent delegates to the convention in Philadelphia for the purpose of creating a better constitution for the country.
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The main reason is that the colonies sent delegates to the convention for the strict purpose of amending the Articles of Confederation, not creating a new Constitution to completely replace the Articles. The delegates kept much of their deliberations secret by using the "Committee of the Whole" as a device to evade having to record some of the actual discussions and resolutions. Under the Convention's customary rules, whatever was discussed in open session had to be recorded. Whatever was discussed in committees did not. So in order to discuss a full replacement of the Articles secretly, the Congress frequently went into what they called a "committee of the whole", which just happened to comprise the whole entire Congress. This way the whole Congress could discuss the new Constitution but did not have to record the discussion, because it was being discussed in a "committee". They knew that if some states found out they were devising a new government rather than just fixing the old one, those states would have re-called their delegations. As it turned out anyway, many states accused the Congress of going beyond its authority and creating something that was unauthorized and void. Despite those arguments, the Constitution was still ratified..
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The debates and compromises that went into creating the U.S. Constitution were done at a constitutional convention to which Rhode Island refused to send delegates.
The debates and compromises that went into creating the U.S. Constitution were done at a constitutional convention to which Rhode Island refused to send delegates.
The debates and compromises that went into creating the U.S. Constitution were done at a constitutional convention to which Rhode Island refused to send delegates.
The debates and compromises that went into creating the U.S. Constitution were done at a constitutional convention to which Rhode Island refused to send delegates.
The debates and compromises that went into creating the U.S. Constitution were done at a constitutional convention to which Rhode Island refused to send delegates.
The debates and compromises that went into creating the U.S. Constitution were done at a constitutional convention to which Rhode Island refused to send delegates.
Daniel W. Weidner has written: 'Creating the Constitution' -- subject(s): Constitutional history, Juvenile literature, Politics and government, United States, United States. (1787), United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)