By the year 1786, the people realized that the foundation on which our country was built on, that being the Articles of Confederation, had some major flaws that needed to be modified. The Articles of Confederation hindered Congress from taxing the people, regulating domestic affairs, and even controlling the countries commerce. With these restrictions on the power of Congress, it made it very difficult for Congress to make money. Instead, they had to rely on generous contributions from the states,which most of the states didn't partake in. The United States had no money to pay the soldiers back who served in the Revolutionary War or to pay back the money from the foreign loans that was granted to them during the war, and this resulted in the United …show more content…
The two plans allowed congress to have new powers to regulate the national defense and the economy. The only problem was that the Virginia plan wanted the bigger more populous states to have more of a say in the voting while the New Jersey Plan called for each state to have a equal number of votes. The delegates form each state finally agreed to send one person from each state to a grand committee which then they would vote and decide the issue at hand. On July, 1787 the grand committee approved what is called the Connecticut Compromise. This Compromise gave each state the same number of votes in the upper house but made the votes in the lower house matter on the population of a states. September 17, 1787, the new founded Constitution was approved by the convention and was ready to be sent to each of the states for ratification. It was time vote on the new formed constitution, and each state had an equal number of votes. The voting results came back with thirty-nine out of fifty-five delegates approved of the new constitution, which was barely enough to win. The Untied States finally had a constitution and a strong national