A Constitutional Convention Or How Sometimes You Just Have to Compromise.

A Constitutional Convention

Or How Sometimes You Just Have to Compromise

• The Articles of Confederation created a weak central government• And then farmers rebelled in

Massachusetts – Shays’ Rebellion

• How could the central government stop a rebellion if it did not even have an army?

• A Constitutional Convention was called• It was time to revise the Articles of

Confederation

• There were, however, some conflicts

1- Small states worried about representation – would big states have all the power?

2- And what about slaves – would slaves count in determining the states’ number of representatives?

• And what would Congress be allowed to tax?

• So, compromises were reached

• First, representation in Congress- New Jersey Plan: Smaller states

wanted the number of representatives to be the same for all states- Virginia Plan: Larger states wanted

representation be proportional to the size of each state’s population

• The Great Compromise- Or Connecticut Compromise- A bicameral or two-house Congress- A House of Representatives - And a Senate

• A House of Representatives: where states would be represented in proportion to their population • A Senate: where all states would be

represented equally

[2 Senators per state]

• And a census would be taken every ten years to determine the state’s population for the number of its representatives in the House of Representatives

• The Compromise over Slavery• Three-fifths Compromise: Three-fifths

of a state’s slave population would be counted for purposes of both taxation and representation

• The Compromise over Trade- Congress was given the power to tax

imports but not exports- A tax on imports is a tariff- So, Congress could create tariffs but

not tax exports

• The Constitution also created a federal government with three branches• This separation of power prevents any

one branch from having too much power• This is known as a system of checks

and balances

• The concept Checks and Balances mean that no one branch of government has all the power• Each branch can check or limit the

power of the other branches

• Examples of Checks and Balances:

• The American System of government is called Federalism- This means that there is a federal

government and state governments- Some powers are reserved to the states- Some powers are granted to the federal

government- And some powers are shared or concurrent

powers

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Starter Explain how compromise was such an important factor at the Constitutional Convention. Explain how compromise was such an important factor at the.

be able to list all of the compromises made at the Constitutional Convention OR be able to explain the role of compromise and conflict throughout.