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	greatcompromise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The result of the Compromise meant that larger states would have more control over laws controlling taxation and spending, but that the small states could check the power of the larger states by stopping or rejecting the bills when they are debated in the Senate.
		The Great Compromise resulted in proportional representation for the States in the less-powerful House of Representatives, and disproportional representation in the Senate.
		Many historians believe the Great Compromise failed to resolve the longstanding rifts between the larger and smaller States, and between the slave States and free (or freer) States.
	projects.edtech.sandi.net /roosevelt/constitution/greatcompromise.htm (510 words)

	Encyclopedia: Missouri Compromise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Missouri Compromise, also called the Compromise of 1820, was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories.
		The compromise was specifically repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
		Jump to: navigation, search The Compromise of 1850, in the history of the United States, was a series of Congressional legislative measures addressing slavery and the boundaries of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846â€“48).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Missouri-Compromise (1679 words)

	Philadelphia Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although it was purportedly intended only to revise the Articles of Confederation, the intention of many of the Convention's proponents, chief among them James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, was from the outset to create a new government rather than "fix" the existing one.
		Later when neither side would give into the other, they made a compromise, known as The Great Compromise following Sherman's plan of having the House of Representatives be based on population and in the Senate each state would get an equal amount of Senators.
		It was later agreed to, and became known as the Three-Fifths Compromise.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constitutional_Convention_(United_States) (976 words)

	Learn About Congress: Compromise
		Compromise: In Congress, legislators compromise when they move beyond the argument phase and begin working on the solutions to the problems that come before them.
		Great Compromise: A proposal presented by Connecticut delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention.
		The Great Compromise established a bicameral Congress in which representation in one house would be determined by state population, and that the other would have equal representation from each state.
	congress.indiana.edu /teacher_materials/FactsofCongress/compromise.php (493 words)

	The Great Compromise: The 3/5ths Compromise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Great Compromise, the 3/5ths Compromise, and The Bill Of Rights justify that the making of the Constitution was a “bundle of compromises”.
		The Great Compromise is the Constitutional Convention’s agreement to establish a two-house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house.
		The 3/5ths Compromise is the Constitutional Convention’s agreement to count 3/5ths of a state’s slave population for representation and taxation.
	allfreeessays.com /student/The_Great_Compromise.html (384 words)

	American Politics Discussion Question 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One such compromise (called the Great Compromise and sometimes called the Connecticut Compromise) provided for a bicameral (two-house) national legislature in which each state’s representation in the House of Representatives was to be based on population, while representation in the Senate was to be equal with two Senators from each state.
		The Great Compromise broke a great deadlock at the convention.
		The result of the Great Compromise was that very small states, such as Wyoming and Alaska, each have two Senators, the same as large states, such as California, New York and Texas.
	bss.sfsu.edu /dtabb/amerpol/question1.htm (299 words)

	The Uncompromising Mr. Bush
		Last year's compromise is a vague memory because it failed to alter any of the dynamics between the two sides of a philosophic divide that last week brought the Senate to the brink of a standstill.
		There are, in fact, plenty of reasons to believe that the latest compromise will meet the same fate as the compromise of 2004.
		And, assuming Democrats turn to a filibuster at some point, that would test the allegiance of the Senate's moderate Republicans to a hallowed congressional tradition that would restrain the power of a president at a time when the president is from their own party.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/27/AR2005052701740_pf.html (1599 words)

	SuccessLink
		The Great Compromise: When creating the legislature branch of the new government under the Constitution, the delegates argued on the number of representatives from each state that should be in Congress.
		The 3/5 Compromise: The northern and southern states argued over whether or not to count the slaves in the total population for a state.
		COMPROMISE CHART: The teacher can just assign one of the compromises for that student to read and write about, and have the student copy the other compromise from another student.
	www.successlink.org /gti/gti_lesson.asp?lid=2376 (1124 words)

	Law Wise - September 2004
		A mathematical compromise (known as the Great Compromise) was reached at the 1787 Constitutional convention between small and large states.
		A smaller compromise that was part of the Great Compromise is known as the "3/5ths compromise." For representation, the slave-owning states wanted to count their slaves for representation but not allow them to vote or to rule themselves.
		The compromise allowed 3 of every 5 slaves to be counted in determining the population for representation purposes.
	www.kscourts.org /lawwise/sep2004.htm (2512 words)

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		The ultimate compromise was that Maine was admitted to the union as a free state to counter balance the addition of Missouri as a slave state.
		The compromise was not a long range solution, because it did not create a plan for balancing future slave/free state admissions.
		The great compromise set forth the three fifths rule, which counts slaves as three fifths of a person for purposes of census taking (and therefore deciding the number of house representatives and electoral votes a state receives).
	www.wcnews.com /loaf/historyreview2.doc (3753 words)

	Congress for Kids
		This page provides a brief overview of The Great Compromise, a brief bio of Roger Sherman, and a editorial cartoon, "America's Great Compromise." Two quizzes to test your political skills are also included.
		Help him identify state trivia to include questions about the original thirteen states that were in existence at the time of The Great Compromise.
		The Great Compromise fine-tuned the concept of a "bicameral" Congress.
	www.congressforkids.net /games/greatcompromise/2_greatcompromise.htm (269 words)

	Connecticut Compromise -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Connecticut Compromise of 1787 in the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States, later known as the Great Compromise, was struck in the creation of legislative bodies.
		It joined the (additional info and facts about Virginia Plan) Virginia Plan, which favored representation based on population, and the (additional info and facts about New Jersey plan) New Jersey plan, which featured each state being equal.
		Convention delegate James Wilson wrote "Our Constituents, had they voted as their representatives did, would have stood as 2/3 against equality, and 1/3 only in favor of it." (Harpers Magazine, May 2004, 36) Two of New York State's three delegates favored equality.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/connecticut_compromise.htm (869 words)

	How the Federal Government Finally Conquered the States, or How the War Between the States Really Ended
		The War Between the States was the biggest challenge to state power, with the final nail in the coffin of states rights being driven in 1913 with the ratification of the seventeenth amendment which negated the effect of the Great Compromise and destroyed all state power within the federal government.
		The brilliance of the Constitution is that great men like George Mason and John Randolph were able to stymie these federalists by forcing the attachment of the Bill of Rights, and by insisting on protecting state power with the result of the adoption of the Great Compromise.
		Okay, I've rambled a bit, but here's the gist of my point: The Great Compromise, as you'll recall from your high school civics classes, was the reason we have a bi-cameral legislature - - that is we have a House of Representatives and a Senate.
	www.realtime.net /~rentner/Blog/B97335170/C1760035014/E516239232 (866 words)

	Compromise
		In Greg Lauries Book, the great Compromise he tells about a certain tree.
		God ain’t a cut and paste God, he doesn’t have a user friendly interface to suit your compromise and to put blinkers on to sin.
		The bear replied that he was famished and was looking out for a good meal and suggested that they go into the thick of trees to decide of a compromise.
	www.sloppynoodle.com /compromise.shtml (601 words)

	Lieutenant Governor Loren Leman
		The Congress accepted a new plan, the Connecticut Compromise, or the Great Compromise, which gave equal representation in the Senate.
		However, because the Great Compromise influenced the present Electoral College, the less populated states still had a substantial impact on the election.
		The state of Alaska, though small in population, has great natural resources, and she should be free to manage her own resources.
	ltgov.state.ak.us /news.php?id=1282 (961 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Even secrets forbidden for dissemination under the Great Compromise are spouted by Annila's priests when they do divinations.
		Scholars say that in the early days after the Great Compromise the pattern was quite erratic, but recently in the last few centuries, the blue moon has come to follow a pattern.
		There are many rumors and predictions that the Great Compromise would shatter (obviously true) and Time would end.
	www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/9329/queries2.html (1326 words)

	Poli Sci 102 Web : Great_Compromise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Great Compromise - Agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that gave each state an equal number of senators regardless of its population, but linked representation in the House of Representatives to population.
		Great Compromise gave each state equal number of Senators
		Great Compromise is related to House of Representatives
	trumpet.sdsu.edu /x102/PSweb/Great_Compromise.htm (66 words)

	Ned Rice on Abortion on National Review Online
		Especially as advances in embryonic technology and prenatal medicine, respectively, yield new insights such as the recent discovery that extremely young fetuses can feel pain (which led to the perfectly serious suggestion that perhaps the unborn could be anesthetized prior to being aborted).
		It would seem that some compromise between the two sides will have to be forged in order for the peculiar institution known as abortion to be retained.
		One in which the unborn fetus is not granted full personhood, which would preclude its termination, but rather some fraction of legal personhood in recognition of its right to gestate in relative safety until such time as its mother either A) gives birth or B) terminates the pregnancy.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-rice061603.asp (1210 words)

	Bill of Rights, Great Compromise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is because of the Great Compromise, the compromise between the New Jersey and Virginia Plans proposed by the Connecticut delegates to the Constitutional Convention, that the Constitution sets out a bicameral national legislature.
		According to the Compromise, the lower house, the House of Representatives, contains delegates in proportion to states’ populations, while the upper house, the Senate, contained two senators per state elected by state legislatures.
		It included the 3/5 Compromise and gave Congress broad powers over foreign and interstate commerce, the power to levy taxes directly on citizens, and the sole right to coin money and determine its value.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~mwfriedm/terms/le4.html (261 words)

	History Alive! America's Past Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This agreement is known as the Great Compromise.
		The delegates would make many more compromises before their work was done.
		But it was the Great Compromise that saved the Convention—and gave us the Congress we know today.
	www.teachtci.com /essays/haap/topic07.asp (903 words)

	Philosophy of The Great Compromise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This causes a great deal of conflict with the classical Christian view of the "Holy Trinity." By the Trinity of God we mean His tri-personal existence as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - three distinct persons in one.
		When Rome saw the troubles that persecution brought her in Germany they bothered only to expel Zwingli from the Church, and he was able to live the duration of his days in peace.
		The great compromise can be plainly seen in our age by the reverence toward Sunday as the Sabbath of the Lord.
	www.tamuk.edu /mcpe/jenkins.htm (6513 words)

	The Great Compromise - Legalsoft (R) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Gunning Bedford, a delegate from Delaware went so far as to threaten that the small states might pull out of the Convention and look for "some foreign ally." Alexander Hamilton of New York called the situation a "contest for power, not for liberty" while the future of the young country was at stake.
		The Great Compromise was accepted after a few days of debate.
		Other compromises followed, but this compromise is named "The Great Compromise" because it saved the = 4) BSPSPopupOnMouseOver(event);" class="BSSCPopup">Constitutional Convention, and possibly the country as a whole, from failure, by allowing the convention process to continue on to produce the Constitution of the United States of America.
	legalsoft.com /great_compromise (238 words)

	Punknews.org \| The Junior Varsity - The Great Compromise
		As far as debut albums go, "The Great Compromise" is pretty solid, and definitely worth a listen.
		TGC is a great cd, but just wait for their new shit.
		This album is great, but I promise all of you, you don't truly know how great the Junior Varsity is until you've seen them live.
	www.punknews.org /reviews.php?op=albumreview&id=2619 (1478 words)

	The Great Compromise
		A compromise was reached yesterday (June 29th, 1787) in Philadelphia combining the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan.
		Many believe that the compromise that has been reached is a major progression towards the unification of the States under a Federal System and has solved the problem of state representation.
		The Compromise was submitted to the constitutional convention to break the deadlock created by the New Jersey Plan and The Virginia Plan.
	www.cyberlearning-world.com /nhhs/amrev/begin.htm (637 words)

	U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee
		The Constitutional Convention voted on July 16, 1787, to create a second house of Congress where the States would have equal representation, and it was that one crucial vote that made the Constitution possible.
		The Constitution of the United States was written in Philadelphia by 55 men drawn from twelve of the thirteen American States that had, just a few years earlier, won their independence from Great Britain.
		This was the Great Compromise of the Convention, and it was the birth of the United States Senate.
	rpc.senate.gov /~rpc/releases/1999/fg071599.htm (1725 words)

	Publius Rendezvous»Blog Archive » The Great Compromise of 2005
		It seems as though that another “great” compromise could be reached over this nominee even though he has been confirmed twice (unanimously) by the Senate in his illustrious career.
		It was utterly preposterous and nothing short of absurd to construe this “compromise” as anything but a win for the Democrats in the first place.
		Though, tt is quite encouraging that the Republican Senators Graham and DeWine have learned their respective lessons as they approach the confirmation process with this nominee.
	www.publiusrendezvous.com /2005/11/03/the-great-compromise-of-2005 (182 words)

	The United States Constitution, The Great Compromise
		Three months of discussion, debate, and compromise led to a final version of the text.
		After learning about the Constitution and the compromises involved in its creation, challenge students to create their own Bill of Rights or Notebook of Core Democratic Values.
		Stress to the students that compromise will be a key factor to having the Bill pass.
	www.homeschoollearning.com /hsc/unit_09-14-01.html (1355 words)

	Print Article: Footsore and fancy-free in the Great Shoe Compromise
		In the middle of the shop, I spotted a depressed woman trying on the only pair of plain moccasins on display, while the sales assistant, teetering on chain-and-leather high heels, rolled her eyes.
		That poor woman embodied the contemporary Great Shoe Compromise: better plain than stupid or ugly.
		Better in and out of the store with some Easy Steps than humiliating yourself with a pair of white-leather eyelet '80s retro pumps.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/10/23/1034561547759.html (706 words)

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