Name Teacher's name History Date The Constitutional Convention The debate at the Constitutional Convention was quite intense and involved some different issues and arguments. Much of the debate centered around states' representation in what would become the Federal Government. Here we will address two of them: the debate over proportional representation that was eventually settled with “The Great Compromise” and the debate over whether slaves should count towards a state's population. The first one was primarily a debate between small and large states. The Virginia plan, as proposed by James Madison, originally had the Congress's composition determined by the size of a state's...
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