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To: DoodleDawg

‘...the end result was still to grant slave states a disproportionately large representation in the House of Representatives.’

the whole point of the compromise, which you seem to have missed, was to prevent sufficient disproportion in representation to expand slavery to the entirety of the western territories...without it, there would be no constituion as we know it today, as the slave states would never have ratified it...


25 posted on 05/08/2021 6:16:46 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade

“the whole point of the compromise, which you seem to have missed, was to prevent sufficient disproportion in representation to expand slavery to the entirety of the western territories . . .”

Was the expansion of slavery into the western territories an issue at the time the constitution was being debated?

The reason I ask is because 13 of the original 13 states were slave states.

And of those 13 slaves states, 13 voted to enshrine slavery into the United States Constitution.


33 posted on 05/08/2021 7:07:16 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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