. A history of the United States. d makes a good like manner here both sides must part with some of theirdemands. According to the plan finally adopted each state,large or small, should have two senators, while its numberof representativesdepended uponthe size of its pop-ulation. Massa-chusetts, for ex-ample, was grant-ed eight membersin the House ofRepresentatives,Virginia ten, Del-aware one, andMaryland six. Many similarbargains weremade in thecourse of the de-bates. There was,as one writer says,a whole bundle of compromises agreed to while makingthe Constitution. Frankhn wanted to
. A history of the United States. d makes a good like manner here both sides must part with some of theirdemands. According to the plan finally adopted each state,large or small, should have two senators, while its numberof representativesdepended uponthe size of its pop-ulation. Massa-chusetts, for ex-ample, was grant-ed eight membersin the House ofRepresentatives,Virginia ten, Del-aware one, andMaryland six. Many similarbargains weremade in thecourse of the de-bates. There was,as one writer says,a whole bundle of compromises agreed to while makingthe Constitution. Frankhn wanted to have a Congress ofone House and to fix the term of President at seven years,denying him a second term. These proposals and manyothers were voted down. The States accept the Work of the Convention. — Thepeople of the states accepted the work of the convention,though not without weeks of discussion and of the small states thought the Constitution favorableto their interests. Delaware, New Jersey, and Georgia rati-. CoNGRESS Hall, PhiladelphiaNational Capitol in 1790-1800 242 STARTING THE NEW GOVERNMENT fied it with enthusiasm. Ratification came only after a long,hard fight in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New York. RhodeIsland and North Carolina at first refused to join the otherstates. Eleven states accepted the new Constitution, andwent to work to form a more perfect union. ^ George Washington, First President, 1789-97. — TheCongress of the Confederation appointed March 4, 1789, forbeginning the new government, and New York as the tem-porary capital. Electors, chosen in half of the states by thelegislatures, and in the others by the people, voted unani-mously for Washington as the first President. They choseJohn Adams as Vice-President. It was long after March 4before Congress was organized and Washington was officiallynotified of his election. On April 30 he took the oath ofoffice and read his inaugural address to the two Houses ofCongress assembled in Feder
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