The importance of the Connecticut (compromise) papers versus either the Virginia (big state) the New Jersey (small state) version is being played out year after year in election cycles and when legislation is to about to be passed. I believe the incident served as a pathway for future deliberations and will become the corner stone of the functioning of a well-designed constitution.
Another interesting aspect in the process of the development of the constitution is the federalist vs antifederalist argument. This is still very relevant today as it plays out in the form of big government versus small government position of the two dominant political parties. Historically, the context in which this arguments were made was even direr as some people (the antifederalist) were skeptical and could easily imagine the federalists driving the whole country …show more content…
First, the constitution was designed to be flexible in certain areas to give room for developments that would arise. Secondly, and more importantly, they were in the process of creating a country and this was against the interest of the British, the then world power – forming a country (US) meant loss of revenue for the British, so war was imminent. Nonetheless, the founding fathers were visionaries and included statements such as “promote the general welfare”. These statement sounds like they could have been partly defining public