intolerable acts and rejected the raising of money by taxing. This started the Revolutionary war. During the war there were people who were loyal still to the crown and fought for them in America. This diversity among even the most common of people could of split up families and caused killings for being loyal to the royal crown. But after the Revolutionary war ended the new Nation had to make a new framework for a nation. With the diversity of people form north to south and the difference in views on how this nation should be run made it difficult to establish how this nation would be set into stone. First they had to decide on what type of government if they were going to have either a monarchy or a republic government, even though there was some people that wanted the new government to be a monarchy still the majority was in favor of a republic government. To setup the government they had to have what was called the Constitutional Convention. In this meeting of 55 delegate diversity showed greatly in the states they represented. Some represented large state with a large population, and some with states with small area and population. The other major thing that diversified the states was the southern states that were for slavery and the northern states that didn’t rely on slavery as much. The first thing proposed was the Virginia plan. This proposed a government with three branches of the government which was decided would be the best situation but then they had to decide on how the house and the senate would be represented. The Virginia plan called for representation with population. This was deadly for the small states so they setup there own plan called the New jersey plan. This was voted against after many days of debate. The diversity of the states becomes very apparent at this stage of the constitutional congress because neither side of the argument seems to back down from there views. It became so fierce of an argument ...
