“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.
Sure, they were in 1775, but by 1787 five Northern states had outlawed slavery or begun abolition.
In 1787 Congress outlawed the expansion of slavery into the Northwest Territories at the recommendation of, among others, Thomas Jefferson.
In 1787 virtually all Founders supported the idea of gradual abolition and many, like Jefferson, took important steps in that direction.