The family was important because land was given to people according to how big and how famous the family was. The more powerful and bigger the family the more they had. That's why they always stuck together and had close knit families because it meant their prospering.
The Great Compromise solved the problem of representation because it included both equal representation and proportional representation. The large states got the House which was proportional representation and the small states got the Senate which was equal representation.
The U.S. Constitution and state constitutions allow for amendments. ... Most of them follow the form of the U.S. Constitution closely, leading to similarities between the documents .