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Why did the Constitutional Convention of 1787 agreed to create a bicameral legislature?
The framers agreed to create the United States Senate and House of Representatives as a compromise. During the Constitutional Convention, framers disagreed on whether or not the legislative branch of government should represent the states equally or based on population. As such, the Senate has an equal number of 2 representatives for each state, and the House of Representatives has a certain number of representatives for each state depending on population.
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What were 7 areas in which the framers of the constitution agreed upon?
What did the framers of the constitution agree/disagree upon at the constitutional convention?
Once the delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed on the Constitution what was required for it to become official?
ratification by the states -apex
What is the most characteristic of the Great Compromise of the constitution?
This Great Compromise is were the small and large states agreed to a bicameral legislature. This allowed for one part to be based on the size of the state and the other was all equal.
What was the grat compromise?
The great compromise or the Connecticut compromise was an agreement reached in the Constitutional Conventional of 1787. According to this agreement states agreed over the legislative structure of USA and the representation of each state. It was also agreed upon to endorse Bicameral system of legislation.
How Elbridge Gerry feel about slavery?
he agreed that (in the constitutional convention) each black person should count as 3/4's of a person and that he did not care whether or not it continued
