Sherman’s proposal is rightly called the Great Compromise of 1787. Without it there would have been no United States of America. Still, it only passed by one vote. We Americans have always been ...

Was the “Great Compromise of 1787,” which settled the battle over representation between large and small states while also preserving slavery, a triumph that enabled the fledgling United ...

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith (R) said the compromise ultimately helped end slavery, while historians generally agree it reinforced the power of slave states.

This institutional albatross is the product of a compromise reached in mid-to-late August of 1787 between the two competing ... The electoral college replicated the Great Compromise reached ...

The Three-Fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional ... Beckwith talked about the compromise as being “a great move” that ultimately helped ...

The Great Compromise of 1787, incorporated into the U.S. Constitution, was specifically designed to avoid such a circumstance at the federal level. Without its provision for a dual system of ...

But the question is not what we would do today but what the drafters of the Constitution, or those among them who opposed slavery, could have done in 1787. In that light, the compromise seems more ...

The Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis, a group founded as part of the Civil Rights Movement, is asking Gov. Mike Braun to condemn Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith 's statement that the Three-fifths Compromise ...

11, 2013. Photo by Elizabeth Crisp, [email protected] Do you remember the history lesson about The Great Compromise of 1787? It was a distant memory for us until recently, when we discussed ...