Name: The Constitutional Convention
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- [Instructor] In the United States today,

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of the House of Representatives and the Senate,

and there's the judicial branch, which has the Supreme Court

that stretches throughout the United States.

But how did the United States end up with this system?

We frequently forget that the Constitutional Convention

which created this system we know today happened in 1787.

before the United States had its modern day constitution

and during that time, fought the Revolutionary War,

and tried out a completely different system of government

which we talked a little bit more about in another video.

had a very strong sense of limited government.

In fact, you could think of the Articles of Confederation

where each state had one vote in the legislative branch,

and they had to really agree on most things,

for any kind of amendments to this system.

first went with this system of limited government

because they had just revolted against a monarchy.

in what they call just kind of a league of friendship,

independent nations who do some things together

for foreign policy reasons and economic reasons.

Now by the late 1780s, it was becoming clear

that the Articles of Confederation were not working.

So in 1787, delegates from 12 of the 13 states,

Rhode Island did not participate because Rhode Island

to think about how to revise the Articles of Confederation.

And some very notable figures were there.

Although some people that you might have expected

to be at the Constitutional Convention were not,

who were out of the country being diplomats at the time.

So the delegates at the Constitutional Convention

have a pretty difficult problem to solve.

They want to have a stronger central government,

but they don't want a central government that is too strong

They don't wanna recreate monarchy in the United States.

So they're looking for a very delicate balance

of a government strong enough to get things done

Now even though the delegates were supposed to be revising

the Articles of Confederation and starting anew.

But one of the biggest hurdles they had to solve

was what would a new sort of legislature look like.

And their idea was that there would be a lower house,

similar to the House of Commons in English Parliament,

as individuals would vote for the representatives

but the number of representatives that each state would get

Now Virginia was the largest state by population by far

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