Significance Of The Constitutional Convention 1787

The Constitutional Convention that took place in Philadelphia on May 29th, 1787 contained three vital and crucial parts that make up our constitution today. The Convention consisted of four million residents. The main objective was to establish a new union. The constitutional convention contains three vital parts. The first being the Virginia plan otherwise known as the large state plan. Therefore containing a plan with two house legislatures, and judges elected by the legislature. The Virginia Plan was orchestrated by James Madison. The Virginia Plan also presented the three branches of government legislative, executive, and judicial. They also contained two houses of congress which are the senate and the house of representatives. The legislature
Proposed by Oliver Ellsworth and Roger Sherman stated that delegates of the Constitutional Convention would create a two house legislature. The compromise would pave the way for all states to have a fair and shared equalized representation in both the senate and house of representatives. Roger Sherman was able to address prominent issues including the topic of slavery. However the senate would have equalized representation and be elected by lower house individuals. Meanwhile the lower house would have equal representation. Furthermore the Three-Fifths Compromise was establishes in 1787 with respect to slaves. Because of this tensions arose between the thirteen colonies. The results of the slavery compromise resulted in 600,000 deaths between the North and South. Additionally the Three-Fifths Compromise determined the number of representatives their reasoning being every five slaves would be counted as three. This was simply a methodical way of determining the vote. The constitution stated “all other persons” would not be identified as slaves. Ultimately it was a unanimous decision between the North and the South. The Three-Fifths Compromise was a highly debatable issue for the reason being delegates were faced on how to count slaves for representational purposes. Although not all states permitted slavery, despite slavery being legal. They believed it would be inequitable for those states in particular. Many of the anti slavery states were located in the northern part of the country including New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Ultimately the delegates reached a negotiation that slaves would only be counted as Three-Fifths of a person. Up until the civil war the Three-Fifths Compromise remained intact. However once the war had passed the thirteenth amendment was passed