Constitutional Compromise Of 1787

The Constitutional compromise between the small and large states is also known as the Connecticut Compromise of 1787. When the Constitution was written it allocated the government to have two separate legislative branches, the House of Representatives and the Senate. However, the Constitution did not write exactly how these two branches of government would be elected. In fact, they put the election part of the two branches of government in the hands of the states. Unfortunately, this began a bigger issue than I believe our forefathers realized, because every state varied in how they elected their government officials. In Virginia, the House of Representatives were elected by the people of the state and the Senate were nominated by the state

They came up with a new concept where House of Representatives for each state would be limited to a certain number, dependent upon the state’s population. This way, the larger states would not basically run the government due to the fact that they had more members of Congress. They also came up with the concept that people of their state would elect the House of Representatives. Sherman and Ellsworth are also credited for the Senate having only two members from each state, no matter what the state’s population is, and Senators were chosen by the state legislature. Sherman and Ellsworth put their bill before the current members of Congress and the bill passed, and lasted. The only exception to their bill came in 1913, when the Constitution was amended, allowing people to also elect their Senate members. But their concept for their bill was so brilliant we still practice it

The country as not whole, they were facing many hardships, and the founders wrote the Constitution to try to help alleviate the suffering through the country, however they made it worse. When the Constitution was written they attempted to make a centralized government. However, the centralized government they created barely had any power. Meanwhile, the States’ power was unlimited. This obviously created a major rift between the national and state governments. After the Constitution was amended to fix the government, which in the end gave the national centralized government and limited the States’ governments, our forefathers created the concept of checks and balances between the legislative, judicial and executive powers of government. The forefathers wanted to help ease any problems with the government that they could foresee, so they implemented the system of checks and