The country would be without the establishment of the rule of law, the creation of a federal system with a supreme national government, the separation of governmental powers into three branches that check and balance each other, its flexibility and the establishment of a republican form of government. These concepts and ideas would simply not exist.
George Washington was the person elected to be president of the constitutional convention because he was the leader for almost everything involving the constitution.
The Great Compromise was necessary because had it not happened, the Constitutional Convention would have disintegrated.
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Congress would elect them.
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At the Constitutional Convention the question of slavery discussed at length. In the end, however, it was decided that the practice would continue.
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The primary conflict of the Constitutional Convention was settling how states would be represented in Congress and whether this would be an equal number or vary based on population. The Connecticut Compromise resolved this issue.
Thomas Paine declined the invitation to attend the Constitutional Convention. He did not believe in a strong central government that the new Constitution would enact.
George Washington was the person elected to be president of the constitutional convention because he was the leader for almost everything involving the constitution.
At the Constitutional Convention, the New Jersey Plan contained the idea of what would eventually become the Supremacy Clause. It was also known as the Paterson Plan.
Forty-nine states have applied for an Article V Convention (what is often called a "Constitutional Convention"), submitting more 700 applications. Article V does not permit the calling of a "constitutional convention" only a "convention for proposing amendments."
They would get a group together and talk about what needed to be changed or written.
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John Adams was the United States' Ambassador to England during the Constitutional Convention
The Great Compromise was necessary because had it not happened, the Constitutional Convention would have disintegrated.