Great Compromise
A plan accepted at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 that called for a Congress of two houses, it also called the Connecticut Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution. Each slave should be counted as three-fifths of a person in determining the number of representatives a state might send to the House of Representatives. It also determined the amount of direct taxe
1. What were the major arguments for and against proportional representation of states in the national government? How did the New Jersey plan differ from Virginia plan?
- states delegates argue that the U.S. was a confederation of separate states and national government derived from and represented the states, not the people; and bigger(more population) states will have more influence than the small states
- In NJ plan,
2. What were the key elements of the Great Compromise? In what ways did it address the problem of representation, and in what ways did it not?
- both side gained little and lost a little
- The House of Representatives will use proportional representation; The senate uses equal representation
3. How did the Three-Fifths Compromise and the census help delegates resolve issues of representations
- Southern states and Northern states have conflict on what kind of people count as representation for the house of Representatives - should slave states receive extra votes in Congress because they have slaves
- The Three-Fifths Compromise let both side
4. How might the history of the United States have been different if the original thirteen majority of the representation in Congress?
The Congress will hardly represent the benefit of the people, but rather it would represent the benefit of all the states, and those powerful state's governors
5. How, if at all, has equal representation in the Senate affected the principle of majority rule?
the Senate are represent the wise people in the states, having equal representation in the Senate makes the law harder to pass, because it require both house to agree on the issue, and it deduced the principle of majority rule.