Locked up in a convention room in Pennsylvania during the Summer of 1787, doors and windows nailed shut, fifty-five sweaty men in white powdered wigs, cotton stockings, and thick frock coats wrote a document which would change the future of the 13 states and run America for the next 300 years. The “near-perfect” document, coined the constitution, compromised on a system that unified all 13 states and satisfied both the Federalists, and Anti-Federalists. The Constitution formed a large national government and included two houses system where almost everyone was represented, whilst best avoiding dangerous factions.
Although the large national government provided in the constitution didn’t ensure that factions would be completely eliminated, it however instilled that factions would have less powers due to how many of them would exist in the government. The idea of a large national government was explained by Thomas Madison and his associates in the federalist papers, specifically in the Federalist 10. Madison stated that because …show more content…
Not only did the framers propose a large government to unite the people, they also assured the anti-federalists from smaller states they would get the representation they wanted. The Constitution introduced a bicameral legislature house, The Senate and the House of Representatives, a system where every state chose two Senators to represent their state no matter the population or state size, and had the right to elect a certain number of representatives that was proportional to their population size. To furthermore satisfy the states (particularly slave states), the constitution included a 3/5s Clause, allowing slaves to represent 3/5ths of a person when deciding on the number of representatives each state got. This system persuaded not only less populous states to ratifying the states, but slave states
Although the large national government provided in the constitution didn’t ensure that factions would be completely eliminated, it however instilled that factions would have less powers due to how many of them would exist in the government. The idea of a large national government was explained by Thomas Madison and his associates in the federalist papers, specifically in the Federalist 10. Madison stated that because …show more content…
Not only did the framers propose a large government to unite the people, they also assured the anti-federalists from smaller states they would get the representation they wanted. The Constitution introduced a bicameral legislature house, The Senate and the House of Representatives, a system where every state chose two Senators to represent their state no matter the population or state size, and had the right to elect a certain number of representatives that was proportional to their population size. To furthermore satisfy the states (particularly slave states), the constitution included a 3/5s Clause, allowing slaves to represent 3/5ths of a person when deciding on the number of representatives each state got. This system persuaded not only less populous states to ratifying the states, but slave states