The Great Compromise
created two legislative bodies in Congress. Also known as the Sherman Compromise or the Connecticut Compromise, the deal combined proposals from the Virginia (large state) plan and the New Jersey (small state) plan.
What was the large states plan called?
Edmund Randolph offered a plan known as
the Virginia, or
large state, plan, which provided for a bicameral legislature with representation of each state based on its population or wealth. William Paterson proposed the New Jersey, or small state, plan, which provided for equal representation in Congress.
What proposed favored large states?
The Virginia and New Jersey Plans. In the Constitutional Convention,
the Virginia Plan
favored large states while the New Jersey Plan favored small states.
What was the name of the plan that was proposed by the bigger states based on the population size of their states for more representation in government?
Great Compromise
The Connecticut delegation proposed the creation of a bicameral legislature. Seats in the House of Representatives would be apportioned according to a state’s free population plus three-fifths of its slave population. Each state would be equally represented in the Senate.
What was the name of the compromise between the big states and small states?
Their so-called
Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise in honor of its architects, Connecticut delegates Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth)
provided a dual system of congressional representation. In the House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population.
What was the plan for the Constitution that was the big state plan?
In the end, the two sides found common ground through the Connecticut Compromise. Also known as the Big State Plan.
Wanted proportional representation in Congress (based on population)
. Opposite of the Virginia Plan, it proposed a single-chamber congress in which each state had one vote.
Why did the three fifths clause please the southern states?
Southern states had wanted representation apportioned by population; after the Virginia Plan was rejected, the Three-Fifths Compromise seemed
to guarantee that the South would be strongly represented in the House of Representatives and would have disproportionate power in electing Presidents
.
Which house is based on the large state plan?
According to the Great Compromise, there would be two national legislatures in a bicameral Congress. Members of
the House of Representatives
would be allocated according to each state’s population and elected by the people.
Why did smaller states prefer the New Jersey Plan?
What did small states favor the New Jersey Plan? Smaller states like this plan
because it gave them equal representation in Congress
.
Which states favored the Virginia Plan?
The result of the vote was 7-3 in favor of the Virginia Plan.
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
voted for the Virginia Plan, while New York, New Jersey, and Delaware voted for the New Jersey Plan, an alternate that was also on the table.
Why did the delegates have to meet in secret?
To
encourage delegates to make arguments without fear of recrimination and to discourage mob action in the city
, those in attendance kept their deliberations secret during their lifetimes and did not inform the public of the resulting document until September 17, after most of the delegates had signed on to it.
Who held the most power under the Articles of Confederation?
Created to unify the 13 colonies, the Articles nevertheless established a largely decentralized government that vested most power in
the states and in the national legislature
.
Which principle was built in to the Constitution?
The Principles Underlying the Constitution
Federalism aside, three key principles are the crux of the Constitution:
separation of powers, checks and balances, and bicameralism
.
What is the most important compromise in the Constitution?
Great Compromise
Also known as the Connecticut Compromise
, a major compromise at the Constitutional Convention that created a two-house legislature, with the Senate having equal representation for all states and the House of Representatives having representation proportional to state populations.
Which was the biggest flaw in the Articles of Confederation?
The biggest flaw in the Articles of Confederation It
created a weak federal government with no powers to impose taxes or regulate trade
. Further Explanation: The weakness of Articles of Confederation was that it reduces the power of national government in imposing taxes and to regulate trade.
Who wrote the Constitution?
James Madison
is known as the Father of the Constitution because of his pivotal role in the document’s drafting as well as its ratification. Madison also drafted the first 10 amendments — the Bill of Rights.
