MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE BILL OF RIGHTS THE CONSTITUTIONS FIRST 10 AMENDMENTS
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establishment of upper and lower legislative bodies
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manner in which bills and amendments would become law
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portion of federal revenues that would come large and small states
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counting of enslaved people for the purposes of determining representation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
Detailed explanation-2: -A contentious issue at the 1787 Constitutional Convention was whether slaves would be counted as part of the population in determining representation of the states in the Congress or would instead be considered property and, as such, not be considered for purposes of representation.
Detailed explanation-3: -what issue did the three-fifths compromise solve? It solved the problem over how to count slaves when determining a state’s population for taxation and representation purposes.