Our founding fathers realized that the Articles of Confederation were greatly flawed, and took on the great responsibility to write a brand new Constitution from scratch. There were a few minor bumps along the way, resulting in three compromises. These three compromises were, The Great Compromise, the Three Fifths Compromise, and lastly the Executive Branch Compromise. The first issue people debated was how many votes should each state get in Congress. The two sides in the debate were the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan. The Virginia Plan said that the number of votes per state should be determined by population, meaning states with higher population would have more votes in Congress, and states with less population would have less
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Some people wanted one executive, because the president could be more efficient in a crisis, while three presidents would be too slow to act in a crisis because the president would take too long to agree on a solution. While people who wanted three presidents said that one president could potentially rule like a king. With three presidents that couldn't happen because they could keep each other in check. The compromise that was reached was that there would be one executive, but the president would be kept in check, because they would be limited to a 4 year term and the Congress would have power to impeach the president. Both sides were satisfied with this arrangement because the people who wanted one president, got one president, and the people who wanted 3 presidents got one president that was limited to a four year term and could potentially be impeached by Congress. This made it extremely difficult for the president to rule like a king, which satisfied the people who wanted 3 presidents. If these compromises never had been made, then our country today would be very different. Without these compromises, people with opposing ideas would probably go to war with each other, causing a Civil War. At the time, our country was too fragile to handle this, so our economy would've collapsed, and Great Britain or France would've come in, and perhaps picked up our remains, claimed our land as their own, so the United States of America would never
Some people wanted one executive, because the president could be more efficient in a crisis, while three presidents would be too slow to act in a crisis because the president would take too long to agree on a solution. While people who wanted three presidents said that one president could potentially rule like a king. With three presidents that couldn't happen because they could keep each other in check. The compromise that was reached was that there would be one executive, but the president would be kept in check, because they would be limited to a 4 year term and the Congress would have power to impeach the president. Both sides were satisfied with this arrangement because the people who wanted one president, got one president, and the people who wanted 3 presidents got one president that was limited to a four year term and could potentially be impeached by Congress. This made it extremely difficult for the president to rule like a king, which satisfied the people who wanted 3 presidents. If these compromises never had been made, then our country today would be very different. Without these compromises, people with opposing ideas would probably go to war with each other, causing a Civil War. At the time, our country was too fragile to handle this, so our economy would've collapsed, and Great Britain or France would've come in, and perhaps picked up our remains, claimed our land as their own, so the United States of America would never