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The New York delegates plays a role in drafting the constitution besides the political ratification which was messy. Both states were large and important and without them, the new government would have failed.

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The federalists wanted a strong government and a executive branch. People who were included in the federalist papers were John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, John Ray, and Rufus King.

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The commerce and slave trade is an agreement which did not allow congress from taxing state exports or impede with the slave trade for 20 years.

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The three-fifths compromise is an agreement between and the northern and southern states in 1787 that the three-fifths of the slave population would be involved for direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.

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The conn. compromise gave a bicameral federal legislature that used a dual system of representation. The upper house would have equal representation from each state while the lower house would have proportional representation on a state's population.

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The NJ plan proposed equal representation for each state in congress. The plan is meant to propose a single-chamber legislature in each state, no matter how big or small the state is, it would have one vote.

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The Virginia Plan was a plan proposed at the constitution convention that was unsuccessful. The plan was supposed to provide a legislature of 2 houses with representation in each house. The House of Representatives was elected by the people and the Senate was elected by the state legislatures.

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There were 74 delegates from 12 different states that were chosen by the legislatures in those states that worked together to make the constitution. Some interesting characteristics are that many of the delegates that attended the meeting read the enlightened philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Studied the writings of John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and William Blackstone.