How was "compromise" essential to the creation of our government? Cite at least three examples.

Compromise was essential to getting anything done. Firstly, compromise was necessary between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists to even get the constitution written. Federalists wanted to just leave the constitution as the preamble, but Anti-Federalists insisted on the Bill of Rights if they were going to agree to the constitution. Also, The Great Compromise was needed to get congress created. They decided on the two parts, the senate and the house, because the smaller states wanted representatives to be a set number per state, but the larger states wanted representatives to be based on population. The 3/4ths compromise was created because slave states wanted their slaves to be counted as part of the population so they got more representation in congress, but non slave states were against slaves being counted as people.