the northern states didn’t want to count slaves at all, relegating them to non-persons.
They were non-persons in the South. In the South they were property, without any rights or benefits that a free person enjoyed. Why did they need congressional representation?
The position I find presented in Madison’s notes, maintained by northern states, is that if you want slaves counted for the House of Representatives then they are fully human and should be free, but if you want to contend they are property they should be counted for taxation and not for representation.
Incorrect.
They didn’t want to count them because that would give slave States the ability to better defend slavery from abolition.
relegating them to non-persons.
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Wrong! almost too stupid to comment on.