The Constitutional Convention adopts the “Connecticut Compromise” between the rival Virginia and New Jerseys Plans: the legislature will be bicameral, with a lower house based on State population, and an upper house based on equal State suffrage.

       [restored 9/26/2021]

Subsequent Events:

9/28/1787                   3/2/1833                  3/2/1867

Authority:

Articles of Confederation, Article XIII
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References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 40.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,161,621,015,445

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