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The Constitution - An Unhappy Medium

The Constitution: An Unhappy Medium
On March 4, 1789, the United States government started operating under its newly ratified Constitution. Seen by many as a joyous departure from the flawed Articles of Confederation, this date in history is generally considered a positive milestone in American history. However, would the general population during that time period have agreed with this designation? Due to the circumstances under which the Constitution was written, many compromises were made, and many politicians' feathers were ruffled. Therefore, the most logical argument would be that the American population of 1789 was anything but content with the final product of the Constitutional Convention.

One of the most famous compromises embedded into the Constitution is that of the legislative branch of its government. The Connecticut Compromise, also commonly known as the Great Compromise, took the opposing Virginia and New Jersey plans, and molded them into what would be the......


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