<span>The first Monday of each month became a holiday</span>
Of the approximately fifty delegates<span> who are thought to have been present in Congress during the voting on independence in early July 1776, eight never signed the Declaration: John Alsop, George Clinton, John Dickinson, Charles Humphreys, Robert R. Livingston, John Rogers, Thomas Willing, and Henry Wisner.
So 42 signed 8 did not</span>
The <span>authors of the constitution created a balance between federal and state governments and between large and small states by forming the "Great Compromise," which created two houses in the legislature. One (the House) that favored the larger states, and one (the Senate) that favored the smaller states. </span>
