Question

What was the role of compromise at the convention in Philadelphia?

Answer 1

The role of compromise at the convention in Philadelphia was:

1. they planned to amend The Articles of Confederation.
2. the convention agreed to count three-fifths of a slave holding state's slave population toward its total population.This increased Southern representation in the house.
3. Rhode Island did not send any delegates.
4. to address the problem of the weak central government that existed under The Articles of Confederation.

Answer 2

Also known as Constitutional Convention, or the Great Convention as Philadelphia, this event took place in 1787. Its delegates gathered from May 25 to September 17, 1787 to revise the league of states and its first system of government as a Confederation, but it resulted in the creation of the Constitution of the United States.

The Great Compromised, or Sherman Compromise, achieved in the Philadelphia Convention, had the role of defining the number of representatives each state would have, in each house. It kept the bicameral legislature as proposed by Roger Sherman, the lower house having proportional representatives for the state´s size, the upper house with two seats for each state.