Chapter 2 : The Constitution

The largest compromise of the two, is known as “The Great Compromise.” The Great compromise is the middle ground that the delegates reached after much argument over two proposed plans. The “Virginia” Plan was better suited for the largest states within America. It favored a more powerful state government, Bicameral legislation and the number of representatives would be based on the state’s total population. Whereas, the “New Jersey” Plan was better suited for the smaller states within the union. It gave the power to a national government, favored unicameral legislation and gave each state an equal number of representatives. After weeks of heavy debate and much disagreement the delegates finally reached a compromise. “The Great Compromise,” combined the values and ideas of both the plans into something that they hoped would appease both large and small states. The Great Compromise awarded a Bicameral legislature and allowed the lower house to be determined by the population, while the upper house gave each state an equal number of

Madison’s national veto also weakened the Virginia Plan, since the national government’s supreme judgment could only cause resentment by local authorities grappling with purely local issues. To counteract Madison’s bold proposal, delegates from the smaller states, headed by New Jersey’s William Paterson, offered a competing plan, the New Jersey Plan. To its credit, the New Jersey Plan amended the Articles of Confederation by adding a plural executive and a judiciary appointed by the executive branch. The New Jersey Plan proposed proportional representation in both houses of Congress to protect the smaller states. Although the addition of an executive would have strengthened the existing confederation, it resulted in a weak plural head of state. Furthermore, since the New Jersey Plan merely amended the Articles, and since the Articles had never been amended given the necessity of a unanimous vote by all of the states, the Plan was almost certainly doomed to

The Virginia plan and New Jersey plan were plans proposed by both big and little states to try and better their chances of being represented in Congress. When it came down to representation in congress there became a problem, bigger states wanted to be represented by population while smaller states wanted equal votes. The bigger states proposition became the Virginia plan and the equal vote proposition became the New Jersey plan. They now had to decide how they were going to equally give both little and big states equal representation based on their proposed plans. The end result is known as the Great compromise.

In the “Virginia Plan vs. New Jersey Plan” both plans called for a strong national government with 3 branches which led to the Great Compromise. The Great Compromise provided for a bicameral congress. The bicameral structure wanted to accommodate both large and small states unlike the unicameral which only included the small vote.

Congress was the initial choice of most of the framers, but then they realized they first dilemma; by having congress elect the president, he would be loyal only to congress and not the people. The second and most logically thought was to have the people elect the president. However,

The Great Compromise of 1787 or the Connecticut Compromise of 1787 refers to the settlement of the dispute that rose due to conflicting views put forward by the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey plan. These plans proposed changes in the Articles of Confederation that was the aim of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. However, whereas the Virginia Plan seemed to provide a greater representation of the more populous states in the national government, the New Jersey Plan was proposed by the smaller states aimed at preventing the balance of the US government from tilting in favor of the more populous states as per the Virginia Plan.

Representation in Congress was determined under the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederations allowed Congress to create wars, make laws, and print money. The problem was that other states had more population than others. Loyalists weren’t paid back and many trade issues weren’t obeyed by the people. Another problem was

3. Division of power allows the federal and the state governments to keep each other in check

`Great Compromise is first and the key compromise in united states constitution, which was facing a major issue like state represented by congress for two plans. There were two plans get together name also Connecticut compromise as well as those plans made legislative branch that bicameral two-house representative which each state representative of proportion in the state’s population and size. For example, large population has more representative small has less represented. One plan was the Virginia plan which represented by population and another one was the New Jersey plan which was made equal

To begin with, The Great Compromise of 1787. Overall it was an agreement between the large and small states during the 1787 constitutional convention. Large states wanted the Virginia plan while small states wanted the New Jersey plan. The Virginia Plan called for a bicameral legislature, which meant that the number of representatives in each house would depend on the population of the state. However, the New Jersey Plan called for a unicameral legislature, meaning each state would receive one vote. There was only one thing each agreed with, both called for a strong national government with 3 branches. Small states

The Great Compromise was an agreement between large and small states that representation in the senate would be equal for each state as small states preferred, and representation in the House would be based on population, as large states preferred. After much debate the Great Compromise was put into place in which they both the Senate and the House received what they wanted. Although the delegates were not completely satisfied the great compromise prevented either group of states from dominating the new system of government. This was of great importance because it was able to define the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States

They aimed to create a government that would represent as an honest broker. According to the text, freedom of property would result in liberty for all people. This was not the case here. Most people during this stage in time were property owning males. That being woman or other person’s that didn’t own land. With property, liberty and democracy flourished. If you did not own land, you weren’t considered apart of society. Liberty and democracy are the principles of what the founding fathers had attempted to bring forward in the source of the idea of the United States. What they never had encountered was the problems that people faced in society, America is a utopian ideal. It seems to accept anyone on any terms, but that is where it is flawed. The founders wanting a balanced government was just close to the only decent forward to the

The sovereignty of individual states meant that the influence of national government was weak and for a more stable country. The states had to abolish this to empower the federal government

In the Articles of Confederation, each state only had one vote regardless of size. This huge problem was resolved in the Constitution by the Great Compromise and the Three Fifths Compromise that gave two votes to the Senate, different number of votes based on population in the

In the 1700s when the United States had detached itself from British rule it was then seen as a plutocracy. The U.S established as a democracy; a government of the people and by the people. However, this establishment was in favor of the rich, educated, and powerful and anyone who was categorized or known as elites and it has remained in favor of these people ever since. Yes we can say we have witnessed variations and seen a semi-democratic rise in the past two centuries, but we have remained a plutocracy hidden behind the word that people use to cover its true identity, democracy. Those like the framers, the public opinion role, interest groups, and money all portray our hidden plutocracy.