Is Compromise Always Fair?

In a compromise, disputing parties come to an agreement about something in a dispute, when each side agrees to give something up.

When is a time you have had to compromise?

The Great Compromise

http://www.congressforkids.net/Constitution_greatcompromise.htm

How was representation determined under the Articles of Confederation?

http://www.ushistory.org/documents/confederation.htm

What was the Virginia Plan?

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=7

http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0005

What was the New Jersey Plan?

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/creating-the-united-states/convention-and-ratification.html#obj1

http://consource.org/document/the-new-jersey-plan-or-paterson-resolutions-1787/

http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0036

How did the Connecticut Plan break the impasse?

http://connecticuthistory.org/the-connecticut-compromise/

http://www.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/history/sherman.htm

http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/531/544609/Documents_Library/conncomp.htm