<span>The Great was retained because it <span>merged proposals from large states and small states about congressional
apportionment. Eventually, the main contribution was in defining the
apportionment of the senate, and thus retaining a federal character in the constitution.
It was proposed that the proportion of suffrage in the 1st. branch [house]
should depend on the respective numbers of free people. It added that for the second branch or
Senate, each State should have no more than one vote. Though this plan failed it was finally
resolved and an amended version of this plan was included. Benjamin Franklin made modifications so that
each state big or small was represented in the senate. The Three-Fifths Compromise was no longer
retained because it focused whether or not to include slaves in the total population
count and victory in the Civil War ended slavery making it null.</span></span>
It was isolationist. The Americans were in the midst of rebuilding their economy that was now improving after the Great Depression and the effects of World War II. Many did not want to go to another war but after witnessing the atrocities committed by the Axis powers in Europe and Asia, they realize that it would only be a matter of time before they would be involved in the war. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor the U.S. officially joined the war on the side of the allies.
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Of two houses of congress( senate and house of representatives)
