Great Compromise
The Great Compromise truly struck a chord on the banjo of history. What basically happened was the Virginia delegation wanted to make votes proportional to a state's population, the problem with this was smaller states. An example was New Jersey, the New Jersey delegation did not want votes to be proportional to a state's population in the house. Why was New Jersey so up in arms about this? New Jersey and other small states came to the realization that if this "Virginia Plan" was applied then they would never have as much power as the bigger states had, the smaller states would ultimately be at the control of larger states with more power than them. So the New Jersey plan was formulated, this plan had a unicameral basis the gist of it was that each state would only get one vote, no matter the population. In the end what happened was both plans got merged together to form The Great Compromise, this new plan would create two houses. One of the houses called the House of Representatives would award votes based on the number of citizens a state had, the second house would be called the senate, this house would give every state 2 senators to represent them no matter the population of the state. Finally this bicameral way of counting votes was decided upon and both large and small states were happy.
The Great Compromise truly struck a chord on the banjo of history. What basically happened was the Virginia delegation wanted to make votes proportional to a state's population, the problem with this was smaller states. An example was New Jersey, the New Jersey delegation did not want votes to be proportional to a state's population in the house. Why was New Jersey so up in arms about this? New Jersey and other small states came to the realization that if this "Virginia Plan" was applied then they would never have as much power as the bigger states had, the smaller states would ultimately be at the control of larger states with more power than them. So the New Jersey plan was formulated, this plan had a unicameral basis the gist of it was that each state would only get one vote, no matter the population. In the end what happened was both plans got merged together to form The Great Compromise, this new plan would create two houses. One of the houses called the House of Representatives would award votes based on the number of citizens a state had, the second house would be called the senate, this house would give every state 2 senators to represent them no matter the population of the state. Finally this bicameral way of counting votes was decided upon and both large and small states were happy.
Three-Fifths Compromise
Southern states and Northern states agreed on something,finally.The issue was that slave owning states wanted to have their slaves counted, because the higher the population count was then the more power the state was given. But there is a catch, the Southern states didn’t want to pay taxes on these slaves, all they wanted from the slaves was their body count and the work they provided. The Northern states had a big problem with this, they didn’t think it was fair that the Slave states could get more votes and didn’t have to pay for those votes. What ended up happening was the Northern states and the Southern states came to the conclusion that a slave was worth three-fifths of a person, thus allowing the Southern states to get some extra votes but the Northern states not feeling cheated when it came to population.
Three-Fifths Compromise
Southern states and Northern states agreed on something,finally.The issue was that slave owning states wanted to have their slaves counted, because the higher the population count was then the more power the state was given. But there is a catch, the Southern states didn’t want to pay taxes on these slaves, all they wanted from the slaves was their body count and the work they provided. The Northern states had a big problem with this, they didn’t think it was fair that the Slave states could get more votes and didn’t have to pay for those votes. What ended up happening was the Northern states and the Southern states came to the conclusion that a slave was worth three-fifths of a person, thus allowing the Southern states to get some extra votes but the Northern states not feeling cheated when it came to population.
