Wednesday, August 17, 2011
My teacher told me that i have to shirnk this para into 7-8 sentences i need help i cant do it..thnaxxx?
On July 16, 1787, the convention adopted the Great Compromise, which granted each state an equal voice in the upper house. In the lower house, representation would be according to population. Since representation in the House of Representatives was to be based on population, a debate arose over whether slaves should be counted in a state’s population. States with slaves wanted to count all of their slaves in the state’s population because that would yield more representatives in Congress. The opponents of slavery, noting that slaves had no rights of citizenship including the right to vote, argued that slaves should not be counted for purposes of representation. In the end, the compromise was to count three-fifths of the state’s slaves in the total population. The states also clashed over control of commerce. Northern delegates favored giving the national government the power to regulate all trade with foreign nations, while southern delegates opposed such broad powers. The southern economy depended on exports of rice, tobacco and other products to Europe and to northern states. They also feared that if the national government imposed tariffs, overseas buyers would have to pay more for southern agricultural products. On July 26, 1787, a committee of five delegates began drafting the Constitution. They presented it to the full convention on August 6. On September 17, 1787 the committee presented to the other delegates the final version of the Constitution, neatly handwritten by Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania. Some of the 55 delegates had already left Philadelphia, but of the 42 remaining delegates, 39 signed the Constitution. With the convention over, the Constitution went to Congress and then to states for ratification
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