The Constitutional Convention began in the summer of in Philadelphia. Its was held to the Articles of Confederation which had taken effect in , but had proved to be a weak foundation of government. Delegates had many issues to contend with, and these are among those issues. - Some states favored the plan of government that would give more power to larger states (known as the ), while some favored a government that favored smaller states (known as the ). What resulted was a government that was based on a plan that combined those two plans, known as the . There would be a Congress consisting of two houses: the House of Representative and the Senate. Members of the would be determined according to a state's population, while each state would get two members in the Together, both houses of Congress would be responsible for the laws of the United States.
- There would be a to head the Executive Branch. The Executive Branch would be in charge of the laws of the national government.
- There would also be a , which would be headed by the . This branch would be responsible for interpreting the laws of the country.
- Lastly, the delegates decided on a "solution" to an issue that would be a problem for decades to come. The was an solution to the issue of counting slaves as part of a state's population when determining their overall population for Congress. This did not free slaves. I need the missing blanks