How they came up with the system we have today The Great Compromise AKA Connecticut Compromise Issue Compromise Legislature Senate House of Representatives Revenue laws Voting Threefifths Compromise ID: 244470
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Constitutional Compromises
How they came up with the system we have today.Slide2
The Great Compromise
AKA Connecticut Compromise
Issue:
Compromise
Legislature
Senate-
House of Representatives-
Revenue
laws-
VotingSlide3
Three-fifths Compromise
New England delegates found slavery immoral and did not want it to continue, but no one was willing to ban it outright, since that would send the slavery-dependent southern states out of the union.
Southern states
did NOT
want slaves to be counted as part of the population for the purpose of levying taxes (over 1/3 of the population of the South was enslaved), but they
did want
to count slaves as people for the purpose of representation in the House.
It was eventually decided that-Slide4
Commerce and the Slave Trade
The southern states did not want Congress to make laws about foreign trade because they were afraid that Northern merchants would push through tariffs and trade restriction that would hurt the South’s agricultural exports, in particular the export of cotton to Britain and France, upon which the South was dependent.
The Southern states also feared Congress would ban the import of slaves from Africa and the West Indies (because this is what many northerners wanted to do).
Compromise-
Slave trade
Export tariffs
Congressional control Slide5
Avoiding the issue of slavery
Slavery is only mentioned twice in the Constitution, once in the 3/5
th
Compromise, and again when it is declared that run-away slaves should be returned to their masters.
Since most northern states are planning to abolish slavery within their own borders, why won’t they abolish it in the Constitution?Slide6
Other Compromises
How to elect the President-
Presidential term in office-