What role did compromise and negotiation play in the constitutional convention?

Delegates of the Constitutional Convention cooperated to come up with a plan for a strong central government. The U.S. Constitution it produced has been called a "bundle of compromises” because delegates had to offer ground on various key points to make a Constitution that was adequate to each of the 13 states. It was eventually ratified by all 13 in 1789. 

• Criteria are rules or directions that must be. followed; they are the       requirements that must be. met.

• Constraints are restrictions that keep something. from being the best that it can be.