Past Two Days Assignment

During the past two days in history class, we talked about the Constitutional Convention and our founding fathers. On September 11th, we read documents about the views the founding fathers had regarding the changes the Constitution should make to society. I read documents about William Patterson, James Wilson, and George Mason. I learned that Patterson believed that in some states, two branches of government were less necessary than in other states. He thought that Congress should have more power. Wilson also believed that states should vary in the number of branches they have, and wanted to give less power to Congress, since "Congress doesn't control the people, it is a single Legislature." Mason thought that people did not want to put all their power into Congress so he believed in having more than one Legislative branch.
The next day on September 12th, we didn't have class, and yesterday, the 13th, we exchanged information that we gathered on the 11th and wrote it down. I learned more about David Brearly, James Madison, Roger Sherman, Elbridge Gerry, Charles Pinckney, and Oliver Elisworth. Brearly thought all states should have equal vote so there would be less dispute between bigger and smaller states. Madison said that the number of representatives should be in proportion with the size of the state, so that bigger states would have more representatives. Sherman thought that the state should do the actually electing, but with input from the people. Gerry thought that problems were caused by democracy and that people should nominate others to make all the decisions. Pinckney believed in having national legislatures elect the national legislatures because they were more experienced and best fit to make the decision. Elisworth supported wisdom from the second branch as opposed to an election of the people.