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At the Constitutional Convention of 1787 serious differences about representation were resolved by creating a bicameral legislature.
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.
"Resolved,.... that a national Government ought to be established consisting of a supreme Legislature, Executive, and Judiciary." -Edmund Randolph, Delegate from Virginia
That they were, infact, meeting to create a new Government for the United States."Resolved,....that a national Government ought to be established consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary."
Most delegates were acting under direct instructions from their states to repair the Articles of Confederation. The concept of creating a new government under a constitution was something that many were ill prepared to work on. A major problem was keeping a sufficient number of delegates on hand to actually pass an agreement on anything. The big state versus small state issues on representation were a constant point of argument. There were at this convention many of the great thinkers of early American History and many of them were unwilling to compromise on any issue.