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Rhode Island sent no delegates, for a couple of reasons:
- Rhode Island feared the increase in federal tariffs that a new Constitution would entail. As a maritime state, they would have been hit especially hard by a tariff. (In fact, a few years earlier, Rhode Island's lone veto of such a tariff by Congress had kept one from being implemented.)
- Rhode Island's government had just recently (1786) been taken over by the "Country Party". This "populist" group, devoted to the concerns of the state's debtors & farmers, had used the heavy printing of paper currency to help their constituency. (Hard currency & low inflation helps creditors; soft money and high inflation generally helps creditors.)
Such struggles were, in fact, going on in several states (Shays' Rebellion in Massachusetts was one example), and concern over them was a significant factor prompting leaders (many of them also investors) to push for a Constitutional Convention by which they might strengthen the central government, giving it powers to limit these excesses in the individual states (and the ability of local groups to agitate for them), including the ability to print their own money.
Rhode Island refused to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention. It was also the very last of the original 13 states to ratify it.
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Why did Virginia call for a constitutional convention in 1829?
Virginia called for a constitutional convention in 1829 to revise the state's framework of government.
The number of votes each state had at the constitutional convention?
one
What state sent the least delegates to the constitutional convention?
During the American Constitutional Convention that formally began its proceedings in 1787, the smallest state (in terms of land-area) represented was Delaware. Rhode Island, the smallest state of the 'Original 13,' declined to send delegates to the Convention.
What was the most important compromise of the constitutional convention?
That state representation at the national level be divided into a two house legislation. The upper house being the place where all states, no matter how large or small the population is, have equal representation. Whereas the in the lower house each state would be represented according to the amount of people in there state.
Which slave state was included at the Constitutional Convention?
There were several "slave states" at the Constitutional Convention because the South had an agrarian economy supported by slave labor.GeorgiaNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaVirginia
Who suggested the plan that the constitutional convention eventually chose the issue of determining state representation in congress?
Edmond Ranolph
Which state chose not to have representation at the Constitutional Convection?
Philedelphia
How were representatives to the Constitutional Convention chosen?
By the legislatures of the different state. Each state government chose their representatives to the Constitutional Convention
Who offered a compromise on state representation at the constitutional convention?
Patrick henry
What solved the problem of how states would be represented in congress?
how was the constitutional convention of state representation settled
What was the name of the state that did not attended the constitutional convention?
Rhode Island did not attend the Constitutional Convention.
Who appointed the delegates to attend the Constitutional Convention?
With the exception of Rhode Island, it was the original states, collectively, that chose the delegates to attend the Constitutional Convention. Several prominent Founding Fathers were not able to attend, such as Thomas Jefferson.
How did the delegates to the constitutional convention solve the problem of how states would be represented in congress?
At the Constitutional Convention, the delegates agreed to the Connecticut Compromise. The compromise stated that representation in the House would be proportional based on population, and that each state would be represented equally in the Senate.
Connecticut compromise is a agreement during the constitutional convention that congress should be composed of a house in which representation would be based on a state's population True Or False?
True.
Which state held the Constitutional Convention?
The Constitutional Convention was held in the Pennsylvania State House, which is now known as Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Constitutional Convention met in what State?
Pennsylvania.
What was the First state to have a constitutional convention?
Massachusetts
