Compromises

• Great Compromise (Roger Sherman)

  • Created the solution to poopy Articles
  • Bicameral legislature
• Three Fifiths Compromise

  • 3 out of 5 slaves were a part of a states population for legislative representation and taxation
  • South wanted slaves to count for representation but NOT for taxation
  • North wanted slaves to not count for either
• Commerce & Slave Trade Compromise

  • Congress was prohibited from taxing exports from the states
• Compromise 4.— Electoral College

  • Popular votes by citizens to select delegates
  • Delegates must confirm winner
  • Congress must validate election
• Compromise 5.

  • Once the Constitution was wrote, they wanted to meet again in 2 years to reevaluate it
  • FEDERALIST PAPERS - Documents that defended the US Constitution, written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton