The most contentious disputes revolved around the composition and election of the Senate as the upper legislative house of a bicameral Congress; whether "proportional representation" was to be defined by a state's geography or by its population, and whether slaves were to be counted; whether to divide the executive
The War Production Board was established in 1942 by the executive order of Franklin D. Roosevelt to regulate the production and allocation of materials and fuel during World War II in the United States.