discuss the background and issues discussed at the Constituional Convention.?

Answer 1

~As I understand it, the background was that a fledgling nation was attempting to create a new state and its laws for a group of rebellious colonies that had just wrested independence from their rightful government. They discussed the weather, the football and basketball drafts, the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and, during lulls in the conversation, talked a little bit about what the new nation should look like, how it should be governed, who could participate in it and boring stuff like that.

Answer 2

Your interest is commendable, but what you are asking requires a book for a reply. James Madison’s notes on the convention is an excellent source for a reasonable answer. A good site for this is:

http://www.constitution.org/dfc/dfc_0000.htm

It provides the debate by dates so you can see how the various issues evolved.

By and large the primary focus was on how to develop a common government function which would have the power to address specific needs without overriding the Sovereignty of the individual States.

This was a need for a group of former colonies which had gained their sovereignty, independence, and freedom from a nation State which had lost its own path of freedoms for the individual which had evolved from the roots of Common Law first formalized in Magna Carta.

Answer 3

The Constitutional Convention drew up the Constitution of the United States. Stimulated by severe economic troubles, which produced radical political movements such as Shays's Rebellion, and urged on by a demand for a stronger central government, the convention met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia (May 25-Sept. 17, 1787), ostensibly to amend the Articles of Confederation. All the states except Rhode Island responded to an invitation issued by the Annapolis Convention of 1786 to send delegates. Of the 74 deputies chosen by the state legislatures, only 55 took part in the proceedings; of these, 39 signed the Constitution. The delegates included many of the leading figures of the period. Among them were George Washington, who was elected to preside, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, James Wilson, John Rutledge, Charles Pinckney, Oliver Ellsworth, and Gouverneur Morris.

Discarding the idea of amending the Articles of Confederation, the assembly set about drawing up a new scheme of government but found itself divided, delegates from small states (those without claims to unoccupied western lands) opposing those from large states over the apportionment of representation. Edmund Randolph offered a plan known as the Virginia, or large state, plan, which provided for a bicameral legislature with representation of each state based on its population or wealth. William Paterson proposed the New Jersey, or small state, plan, which provided for equal representation in Congress. Neither the large nor the small states would yield. Oliver Ellsworth and Roger Sherman, among others, in what is sometimes called the Connecticut, or Great, Compromise, proposed a bicameral legislature with proportional representation in the lower house and equal representation of the states in the upper house. All revenue measures would originate in the lower house. That compromise was approved July 16.

The matter of counting slaves in the population for figuring representation was settled by a compromise agreement that three-fifths of the slaves should be counted as population in apportioning representation and should also be counted as property in assessing taxes. Controversy over the abolition of the importation of slaves ended with the agreement that importation should not be forbidden before 1808. The powers of the federal executive and judiciary were enumerated, and the Constitution was itself declared to be the "supreme law of the land." The convention's work was approved by a majority of the states the following year.

Answer 4

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