Compromise is the tools by which governing officials solves conflict resolution.
Explanation:
We live in a time when elected officials have become less willing to seek common ground. Some resist the very idea of government and scoff at the principle of compromise. But government is necessary and important because people need it to resolve their conflicts, and compromise is the tool by which governing officials hammer out such conflict resolution. If we all agreed with each other, we would not need government.
Compromise has been and will remain vital to sustaining our 200-year-long experiment with self-government. It is a process of give and take, of blending and adjusting. It is not consensus, for rarely is consensus possible, and to make consensus the standard makes self-government untenable.
Compromise gave larger states more say in the House of Representatives by tying representation there to state population, at the same time keeping state representation equal in the Senate by giving each state two votes.
One of the major compromises in the Constitutional Convention was between the small states and big states. The small states wanted each state to have the same number of representatives in Congress. The big states wanted representation based on population.
