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by Martin Kelly. Updated April 03, 2017. The US Constitution has been called a bundle of compromises due to the fact that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 had to compromise on numerous key points in order to create a new Constitution that was acceptable to each of the states.
Clay's Resolutions January 29, 1850. The Compromise of 1850 was a set of laws passed dealing with the controversial issue of slavery. Below are the resolutions created by Senator Henry Clay to bring forth a compromise on the matter. As part of the compromise California entered the Union as a free state, the trading of slaves was abolished in Washington, DC, an amendment was made to the fugitive slave act, a territorial government was established in Utah, and the boundary between Texas and New Mexico was established.