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The Constitutional Convention was a meeting to revise the Articles Of Confederation, but then they realized it would be too much work, so the 55 representatives created a new article. George Washington was elected the leader of the convention. It was held in 1787

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Small states like New Jersey and Delaware agreed with the New Jersey plan, which wanted an equal amount of representatives per state, but larger states like New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia agreed with the Virginia plan, which wanted more representatives for bigger states and less representatives for smaller states. (Based on the states population).

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The Great Compromise resolved the dispute over representation in Congress. In The Great Compromise, there would be two houses - the House Of Representatives and the Senate. The House of Representatives was all about the representatives being appointed because of the population (Virginia Plan) and Senate was all about an equal amount of representatives no matter the state's size. They decided that each state should have 2 representatives.

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This is the result of a disagreement between the northern states and the southern states on whether or not to count the slaves towards the population. The south wanted to count them as population so that they could have more power in Congress, but the north didn't. They wanted slaves to be counted as population for taxes but no representation in Congress. So they settled on every 3 out of 5 slaves were ¨population" but they had to be taxed, since they were being treated like property.