The Great Compromise by enrique balderas

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The Great Compromise

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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Perhaps the greatest debate undertaken by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 centered on how many representatives each state should have in the new government's lawmaking branch, the U.S. Congress
The Great Compromise was an agreement made among the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that the American government would have two houses in Congress:

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise reached between delegates from southern states and those from northern states during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
The debate was over if, and if so, how, slaves would be counted when determining a state's total population for constitutional purposes.

Federalism is a political concept in which a group of members is bound together by covenant (Latin: foedus, covenant) with a governing representative head.
A legislature is a decision-making organization, usually associated with national government, that has the power to enact, amend and repeal laws.[
The executive is the part of government that has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state. The executive branch executes or enforces the law.
The judiciary (also known as the judicial system or court system) is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state.

The United States Electoral College is the institution that officially elects the President and Vice President of the United States every four years. The President and Vice President are not elected directly by the voters. Instead, they are elected by "electors" who are chosen by popular vote on a state-by-state basis.
Electors are apportioned to each state and the District of Columbia, but not to territorial possessions of the United States, such as Puerto Rico and Guam.

The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Proposed to assuage the fears of Anti-Federalists who had opposed Constitutional ratification, these amendments guarantee a number of personal freedoms,

It was the Articles of Confederation-Constitution row which pitted the Federalists and Anti-Federalists against each other. Interestingly though, the differences between them are not restricted to this subject alone.
In 1787, after the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists locked horns over the ratification of the US Constitution, Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/federalists-vs-anti-federalists.html