1 George Washington is to be president
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1. People are free to make their own government. 2. No one should be able to ignore the law. 3. The government has limits.
The major compromises that the delegates agreed to make were The Connecticut Compromise, The Three-Fifths Compromise, and The Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise.
Some of the disagreements at the constitutional convention were that the delegates didn't want to make a whole new form of government. They didn't want it to be to strong or weak so that one state was more superior than the other. The delegates resolved this by doing more than just revising the Articles of Confederation and wrote a whole new constition.
Congress has the right and power to Coin money, declare war, to raise and support armies, lay and collect taxes, borrow money, impeach a president, and many other things.
A government in which people elect delegates to make laws is a Representative Government. A Democracy could be representative or direct.