In your own words, describe the character of the federal government as created at the constitutional convention

Explanation:

Between May and September 1787, delegates from 12 states convened in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation, which had proven insufficient to cope with the challenges facing the young nation.  The convention was the site of spirited debate over the size, scope, and structure of the federal government, and its result was the United States Constitution. The notorious Three-Fifths Compromise apportioned representation to the southern slave-holding states in a scheme that counted five enslaved men and women as three.

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.