3.8

The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification

AP United States History

The delegates

The Virginia Plan

The New Jersey Plan

The Great Compromise

Scene at the Signing of the Constitution by Howard Chandler Christy (1940)
Caption: Christy's painting shows delegates signing the Constitution on September 17, 1787. Source: Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

The Three-Fifths Compromise

Other key decisions

Ratification debate

Key events summary

Vocabulary