Their debate was on how each State would be represented in the Congress. Large states wanted to have the Number of representatives based upon the Population and the small states wanted it to be equal number for each state. The answer was to have a Congress made up of 2 Houses: (A) House of Representativves based upon a State's population and (B) Congress which has equal senators elected from each state.
The smaller states and larger states worked out their differences through what is called the Connecticut Compromise. This was an agreement that said that the number of representatives from each state that would be sent to the US House of Representatives would be based on population. Each state would also have two Senators, no matter what their population.
The New Jersey Plan was a proposal for equal representation in the legislature. The Virginia Plan called for representation on the basis of population. The Connecticut Compromise (July 16, 1787) settled this by establishing a bicameral legislature, with the Senate using the New Jersey plan and the House using the Virginia Plan.
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Created the U.S. ConstitutionThe 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention created the U.S. Constitution. On the final day of the convention, September 17, 1787, thirty eight of them signed the Constitution. The Constitution went into effect the next year, after it was ratified by nine states. The key pieces included the checks and balances and separation of powers: * Between the federal and state governments (and later the Bill of Rights asserted individual rights) * Within the federal government powers were split between executive, legislative, and judicial branches * Within the bicameral legislative branch powers were split between the House of Representatives, in which the representatives were apportioned according to each state's population, and the Senate, in which each state would have two senators. Unlike the Articles of Confederation, the national government can levy taxes directly onto citizens and industries.
The delegates settled on a federal form of government instead of a system in which power was not divided between state and national government because they believed that it provided for a much stronger national government with a chief executive (the president), courts, and taxing powers.
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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.
The Constitutional Convention exceeded its authority in writing a new Constitution and it was feared that if deliberations on a new Constitution were to be found out, the Convention would be dissolved. The Convention was supposed to work out amendments to the Articles of Confederation that would keep that document in effect but improve on its inherent weaknesses. It was soon apparent to the delegates that saving the Articles of Confederation by amendment was hopeless, so they began to create a new form of government entirely. This was a task, the delegates had no authority to do.
There were several, but I bet the one you're thinking of was slavery.
The founding fathers had to settle the disagreement over states rights versus federal rights, and which has power over certain situations.
a house of reps and senate was created so each state would have equal representation