POLISCI 101 Chapter Notes -Connecticut Compromise, Annapolis, Maryland

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International standing, economic difficulties, & balance of power: competition among states for foreign commerce allowed european powers to play states against one another, creating confusion, american shipping, no longer protected by british navy, easy prey for pirates, power balance shifted in colony after revolution; royal land, office, patent holders stripped of economic and political privileges, commerce within the states stagnated; first debt crisis, the annapolis convention, delegates from five states attended in annapolis, md, came up with resolution calling on congress to send commissioners to. Knew there had to be army/navy to protect citizens: sought to create new government capable of promoting commerce, protecting property from radical state legislatures, sought to liberate national government from the power of individual states and corrupt politicians, sought to make government less susceptible than existing state and national regimes, the great compromise, virginia plan.

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