Only six states sent delegates to this meeting, so no changes could be made. A year later, the delegates met in Philadelphia to revise the Articles, but instead wrote the Constitution that we still use today. Under this new type of government, the delegates had decided that there would be executive, judicial and legislative powers. The new government wanted to establish a balance between the power of the government and that of the people. Delegates also had many arguments about the level of representation each state would get. Larger states believed that representation should be based on a state's population. Of course, small states did not agree with this proposal. From there was born the Great Compromise. He said there would be two chambers in this government. The chambers would be the House of Representatives and a Senate. The House of Representatives based its representation on population, and the Senate requested two representatives per state. After their creation, there were debates over who should be counted in the population. States that had slaves wanted slaves to count in their population because they made up the majority of their population. The three-fifths compromise is the law that was created from this. This indicated that slaves only contributed three-fifths to the population. Because the government did not want tyranny to be unleashed, it created two principles. These