• The deficiencies of the Confederation, including the government 's inability to deal with instability or to handle
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• Wealthy and powerful groups supported a strong national government that would deal with the economic problems that directly affected these groups
• Society of Cincinnati - hereditary and exclusive society formed by Revolutionary army officers in 1783
• Military men, upset by Congress ' refusal to pay their pensions, wanted a national government or even a military dictatorship
• Newburgh Conspiracy - military directly challenged Congress in 1783, but failed due to Washington 's intervention
• American manufacturers wanted a uniform high national duty instead of state tariffs; merchants and shippers wanted one national commercial policy; land speculators wanted Indians removed from western tracks; people with money wanted the states to stop issuing paper money; investors in Confederation securities wanted the government to fund the debt and increase the value of the securities; and large property owners needed protection
• Disorder and violence represented the tension between defense of individual rights and protection of the public (safety and security)
• Government needed to strengthen its power to tax
• Alexander Hamilton - New York lawyer, military aide to Washington (one time), and illegitimate …show more content…
• Convention agreed to permit members of upper house to be elected by state legislature rather than national legislature
• Large states wanted slaves to count for population size but not for taxation purposes, but no one argued for giving citizenship or suffrage to slaves Compromise
• The delegates refused to give up, partly thanks to Franklin
• On July 2, the convention created a grand committee with a single delegate from each state (Franklin was chairman)
• Committee produced a proposal that became the foundation of the Great Compromise
• Most important achievement was resolving problem of representation; proposal called for legislature in which states were represented by the lower house based on population, with each slave counting as 3/5 a free man, to determine both representation and taxation
• Upper house should be represented equally with two members/state
• July 16, 1787 - convention voted to accept the compromise
• Convention agreed new legislature could not tax exports, impose duty of more than $10/head on imported slaves, and had no authority to stop slave trade for twenty years
• Constitution provided no definition of citizenship or a list of individual rights
The Constitution of
• Wealthy and powerful groups supported a strong national government that would deal with the economic problems that directly affected these groups
• Society of Cincinnati - hereditary and exclusive society formed by Revolutionary army officers in 1783
• Military men, upset by Congress ' refusal to pay their pensions, wanted a national government or even a military dictatorship
• Newburgh Conspiracy - military directly challenged Congress in 1783, but failed due to Washington 's intervention
• American manufacturers wanted a uniform high national duty instead of state tariffs; merchants and shippers wanted one national commercial policy; land speculators wanted Indians removed from western tracks; people with money wanted the states to stop issuing paper money; investors in Confederation securities wanted the government to fund the debt and increase the value of the securities; and large property owners needed protection
• Disorder and violence represented the tension between defense of individual rights and protection of the public (safety and security)
• Government needed to strengthen its power to tax
• Alexander Hamilton - New York lawyer, military aide to Washington (one time), and illegitimate …show more content…
• Convention agreed to permit members of upper house to be elected by state legislature rather than national legislature
• Large states wanted slaves to count for population size but not for taxation purposes, but no one argued for giving citizenship or suffrage to slaves Compromise
• The delegates refused to give up, partly thanks to Franklin
• On July 2, the convention created a grand committee with a single delegate from each state (Franklin was chairman)
• Committee produced a proposal that became the foundation of the Great Compromise
• Most important achievement was resolving problem of representation; proposal called for legislature in which states were represented by the lower house based on population, with each slave counting as 3/5 a free man, to determine both representation and taxation
• Upper house should be represented equally with two members/state
• July 16, 1787 - convention voted to accept the compromise
• Convention agreed new legislature could not tax exports, impose duty of more than $10/head on imported slaves, and had no authority to stop slave trade for twenty years
• Constitution provided no definition of citizenship or a list of individual rights
The Constitution of