The delegates agreed that congress was to be divided into two houses, with representation in the first, the House of Representatives, determined by population, and all states having two representatives in the second house, the Senate.
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The delegates elected George Washington to preside over the convention. The result of the Convention was the United States Constitution.
The Constitution delegates enacted the US Constitution in 1788 at the Philadelphia convention. 39 of the 55 delegates ratified the Constitution.
Three-fifths Compromise
48 delegates
September 17, 1787 at the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelpia.