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the federalists wanted a strong national government. they also wanted a constitution and said no to the bill of rights. Alex Hamilton was one of them. anti federalists wanted a strong state government and they were against the constitution. they wanted the constitution to have the bill of rights. one of them was george madison.

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north wanted to control trade. the south worried that it would hurt their economy. the compromise that was reached was called the commerce compromise. the commerce compromise said that the north would wait 20 years to vote on slave trade.

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the southern states wanted to count slaves as population, not for taxes. if there is a high pop , it means there will be more representatives in the house of reps. the northern states wanted slaves counted for taxes, not population. the slaves were counted as 3/5.

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the Virginia plan was the the number of reps would be based on population.the new jersey plan was that the small and large states would have the same number of reps.the compromise that solved the dispute over representation was the great compromise. it created a two house congress in which was the senate and the house of reps. each state had 2 senators.

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The constitutional convention was where the constitution was written. (Philadelphia)
55 representatives attended the convention. George Washington was elected leader of the convention.the different sides were the small vs large states, strong vs weak gov, and slavery vs no slavery.