The Great Compromise of 1787 was a settlement between the delegates of the Constitutional Convention. It was an argument on how many new branches the government would be having. There were two plans: The Virginia Plan and The New Jersey Plan. The Virginia plan suggested that we have a two house national legislature. The amount of representatives would be based off the population which makes the larger states with an advantage and the smaller states with a disadvantage. The New Jersey Plan was an opposition to the Virginia Plan. They wanted equal representation for each state and for it to be elected by state legislatures. The Great Compromise merged these two ideas together. It created a branch made up of 2 houses and regardless of size, each state would receive the same number of representatives. People did not know whether to count slaves in the population or not so the delegates came up with the Three-Fifths Compromise. This means that three fifths of the state's slave population would be counted when the representatives are chosen. In the end, the Constitution was made.
On September 1787, the United States Constitution was approved by the convention. The Constitution created three separate branches to divide the government power. It was divided by legislative, executive, and judicial branch. Each branch has a specific job they have to hold and certain types of authorities they have to fulfill. The legislative branch makes laws. The executive branch carries out the laws and the judicial branch interprets these laws.
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