Constitution Paper
Constitution Paper
Patrick Revoir
May 24, 2015
HIS/115
Geoffrey Pierce
Constitution Paper During the 1700’s men such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson came up with a group of laws that they thought would benefit the people of the Americas. There were a few complaints with the Decoration of Independence that the Constitution was able to address and at the same time the Constitution was able to identify and address weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. There are many reasons as to why the Constitution evolved but it served well for the United States. The Great Compromise was a formal agreement for both large and small states to have two representatives in the upper house for each state.
The Connecticut Compromise or as it is most likely known as The Great Compromise, was written in 1787 during the Constitutional Convention by Oliver Ellsworth and Roger Sherman. The Constitutional Convention set up it to where each state would be able to have their own congressional representation and legislative structure. The Great Compromise also required that each state be represented by two representatives within the upper house and that representation in the lower house be equal between all states. This congressional congress session went on for seven long weeks and was almost ruined or destroyed by the issue of representation. The states still argues that they were providing more of a contribution to the financial and defensive resources and so therefore they attested they deserved more representation in the Senate. By July 16, 1787 the congressional convention members accepted The Great Compromise by a mere one vote. “As the celebrants duly noted, without that vote, there would likely have been no Constitution.” (The United States Senate, n.d.).
After Thomas Jefferson helped to write the Declaration of Independence, they began to notice that there were some grievances or issues within the Declaration that required immediate action. The
Patrick Revoir
May 24, 2015
HIS/115
Geoffrey Pierce
Constitution Paper During the 1700’s men such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson came up with a group of laws that they thought would benefit the people of the Americas. There were a few complaints with the Decoration of Independence that the Constitution was able to address and at the same time the Constitution was able to identify and address weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. There are many reasons as to why the Constitution evolved but it served well for the United States. The Great Compromise was a formal agreement for both large and small states to have two representatives in the upper house for each state.
The Connecticut Compromise or as it is most likely known as The Great Compromise, was written in 1787 during the Constitutional Convention by Oliver Ellsworth and Roger Sherman. The Constitutional Convention set up it to where each state would be able to have their own congressional representation and legislative structure. The Great Compromise also required that each state be represented by two representatives within the upper house and that representation in the lower house be equal between all states. This congressional congress session went on for seven long weeks and was almost ruined or destroyed by the issue of representation. The states still argues that they were providing more of a contribution to the financial and defensive resources and so therefore they attested they deserved more representation in the Senate. By July 16, 1787 the congressional convention members accepted The Great Compromise by a mere one vote. “As the celebrants duly noted, without that vote, there would likely have been no Constitution.” (The United States Senate, n.d.).
After Thomas Jefferson helped to write the Declaration of Independence, they began to notice that there were some grievances or issues within the Declaration that required immediate action. The
References: The United States Senate. (n.d.). The Great Compromise. Retrieved from http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/A_Great_Compromise.htm U.S. Constitutions. (2010). The Declaration of Right and Grievances. Retrieved from http://www.usconstitution.net/intol.html U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. (n.d.). Articles of Confederation 1777-1781. Retrieved from http://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/articles U.S. Constitution. (2010). Constitutional Amendments. Retrieved from http://www.usconstitution.net/constam.html