Constitution a Bundle of Political Compromises

Late in May 1787, George Washington welcomed delegates from twelve of the thirteen states to the Constitutional Convention. The fifty-five men in attendance expected to consider significant changes in their national government. In turn the Constitution as ratified was a bundle of political compromises that solved the differences among those delegates. The first and foremost the issue at hand was what kind of government was best for a republic? A plan was submitted by the Virginia …

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