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The Constitutional Convention was where and when the Constitution was written. There were 55 representatives and they all met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. George Washington was the elected leader of the convention

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The issues adressed throughout the convention generally had two sides such as: small state vs large state, slaves states vs non slave states, etc.

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The compromises written in the convention consisted of the Great Compromise, the 3/5 Compromise, and the Commerce Compromise.

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The issue was how many representatives each state should have in Congress. It was small states vs large states.

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The Virginia Plan for this issue is that the number of representatives should be based off of the states population. Bigger population equals more power in Congress.
The New Jersey plan was that each state should have an equal number of representatives.

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The Great Compromise split Congress into two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives, where the New Jersey Plan was applied to the Senate and the Virginia plan was applied to the House of Representatives.

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The issue is how slaves should be counted as part of the population.

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Southern states wanted slaves to be counted as part of the population for representative purposes but not for tax reasons.
Noothern states wanted slaves to counted as property so they should be part of tax and not part of the population that influences the number of representatives.

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The 3/5 Compromise states that slaves only count as 3/5 of a person for the representative population and for tax purpopses.

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The issue of who should control the National Trade.

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North wanted to control the trade but South was worried that this would hurt their economy.

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The Commerce Compromise said that the North would wait 20 years until they ban slavery as long as they could control the trade.

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- wanted a strong central government
- wanted a constitution
- believed that a Bill of Rights was not needed
- Alexander Hamilton

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- wanted a strong State government
- did not want a Constitution
- believed that a Bill of Rights was essential
- George Mason