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This 3 page paper discusses the three-fifths compromise reached at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention in 1787. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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conceived. Nothing could be further from the truth: it was the cause of bitter controversy, intense wrangling, compromise and negotiation, and it took years to get it ratified. This paper
considers one of those compromises: the "deal" made at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. Discussion The argument, then and 80 years later in the Civil War, was over
"states rights." Those who supported a strong federal government were known as Federalists and included such brilliant thinkers as James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay (Faragher et al, 2000).
Those who wanted the states to retain considerable power immediately called themselves the Anti-Federalists and included such influential people as Samuel Adams (Faragher et al, 2000). The Anti-Federalists recognized the
need for a strong government, but they had also just been through a bloody struggle to rid themselves of a strong central government and werent eager to see another one
installed that would force them to do the same thing again. The form that government would take was also a bone of contention; the "Great Compromise" finally came up with
the form we have today: "proportional representation by population in this house; representation by states in the senate" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 198). The compromise that constructed the government
in this way "allowed the creation of a strong national government while still providing an important role for the states" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 198). However, the "deal"
that we are looking at is not this compromise, but one that preceded it and allowed the Great Compromise to go through: the one were looking at is the "three-fifths
rule," and it was born out of the Souths concern over the fact that representation in the new House chamber would be by population. In general, the Southern states were
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