The Good Compromises by JOSHUA WOLMAN https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises We messed up en-us 2019-03-06 16:09:34 UTC 2019-03-07 11:53:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Voting and property rights of women. wj264843 https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338800350 Abigail Adams started a dispute between framers, if women should have the right to vote.]]> 2019-03-07 11:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338800350 Compromises between states with large and smaller populations wj264843 https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338800413 The Great Compromise was forged in a heated dispute during the 1787 Constitutional Convention: States with larger populations wanted congressional representation based on population, while smaller states demanded equal representation. To keep the convention from dissolving into chaos, the founding fathers came up with the Great Compromise. The agreement, which created today’s system of congressional representation, now influences everything from “pork barrel” legislation to the way votes are counted in the electoral college during presidential elections.

The debate almost destroyed the U.S. Constitution.
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, delegates from larger states believed each state’s representation in the newly proposed Senate should be proportionate to population.

Smaller states with lower populations, however, argued that such an arrangement would lead to an unfair dominance of larger states in the new nation’s government, and each state should have equal representation, regardless of population.

The disagreement over representation threatened to derail the ratification of the U.S. Constitution since delegates from both sides of the dispute vowed to reject the document if they didn’t get their way. The solution came in the form of a compromise proposed by statesmen Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut.
]]> 2019-03-07 11:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338800413 Slavery and the questions of how slaves were to be counted in the Census wj264843 https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338800591 The Three-Fifths compromise said that a state could include Three-Fifths of the slaves to vote people into the Legislative Branch]]> 2019-03-07 11:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338800591 The rights of individuals wj264843 https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338800775 First Amendment. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.]]> 2019-03-07 11:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338800775 The make-up of the Senate and electoral college wj264843 https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338801207 The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, and an absolute majority of 270 electoral votes is required to win an election. ... Each state's number of electors is equal to the combined total of the state's membership in the Senate and House of Representatives; currently there are 100 senators and 435 representatives.]]> 2019-03-07 11:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338801207 How the writers decided to distribute political power wj264843 https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338801517 The Separation of Powers devised by the framers of the Constitution was designed to do one primary thing: to prevent the majority from ruling with an iron fist. Based on their experience, the framers shied away from giving any branch of the new government too much power.]]> 2019-03-07 11:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338801517 The rights of states wj264843 https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338801925 Each state has two representatives. One district equals one representative, fifty three districts equals fifty three representative, so on. Each state is represented by two senators. ]]> 2019-03-07 11:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/wj264843/TheGoodCompromises/wish/338801925