Topic > The United States Constitution: The Development of…

Only six states sent delegates to this meeting, so no changes could be made. A year later delegates met in Philadelphia to revise the Articles, but instead wrote the Constitution we still use today. Under this new type of government the delegates had decided that there would be executive, judicial and legislative branches. The new government wanted to have a balance between the power of the government and the power of the people. Delegates also argued a lot about how much representation each state would get. Larger states believed that representation should be based on a state's population. Of course the smaller states did not agree with this. From this came the Great Compromise. It was stated that there would be two chambers in this government. The houses would be the House of Representatives and a Senate. The House of Representatives based its representation on population, and the Senate called for two representatives per state. After these were created, there was debate over who should be counted as the population. States that had slaves wanted slaves counted in their population because they made up the majority of their population. The Three-Fifths Compromise was the law that was created from this. This stated that slaves contributed only three-fifths to the population. Since the government did not want tyranny to begin, it created two princes. These