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The founding fathers established this in the Constitution. There are 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes are required to elect the president and vice president. Each state gets a certain number of votes.
- Julia Sommer

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1783
- dealt with direct taxes
- focused on who is qualified to vote and what votes count
- kept track of slave population

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This proposal helped solved the difficult dispute over whether the character of the national government should be confederal or national and how representation in congress should be allocated. It was a mix between the virginia plan and the New Jersey plan to make both the smaller and larger states agree on one plan. The Connecticut Compromise created a distinct form of federal government.
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a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president. Consist of of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes to elect the president. So 270/538 vote in order to elect a president - Corteria

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Settled a debate between smaller states and larger states.The larger states believed that representation should be based proportionally on the contribution each state made to the nation’s finances and defense, and the smaller states believed that the only fair plan was one of equal representation.
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Source:https://connecticuthistory.org/the-connectic-compromise/ut

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Because slavery was going on in specific states slaves were counted in an 3/5 process to keep track of the slave population. It was purposed by James Wilson and Roger Sherman. They were both delegates of the Constiutional Convention of 1787. It was a ratio of how slaves were counted.
- Daijah S.

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The proposal for apportionment for the determination of each state's number of seats in the House of Representatives became an issue when the Constitution was being drafted in 1787. Aside from being a complex system and method for calculating the population through the census and then establishing a number of seats for representation, the issue as to who was eligible to be counted for the population was a topic of controversy. However, it is no surprise that this agreement is known as the Three-Fifths Compromise, for the Constitution itself was born out of compromise between the Framers of the Constitution.

However, the Three-Fifths Compromise is arguably the most controversial topic, for it delegates that all slaves of a particular state are to be counted as three-fifths of a white person. The population of slaves would be counted as three-fifths in total when apportioning Representatives, as well as Presidential electors and taxes.

The Three-Fifths Compromise was proposed by James Wilson and Roger Sherman, who were both delegates for the Constitutional Convention of 1787. However, the Three-Fifth Compromise has its roots further back in history, dating back to the Continental Congress in 1783. The Compromise was a result of the apportionment of taxes being related to land values.

Initially, taxes were levied not in accordance to the population numbers, but the actual value of the land. Many states began to depreciate the value of the land in order to provide for relief from their taxes. A committee was held that would rectify the situation by implementing the apportionment of taxes in relation to the state's population. However, this idea was met with the dispute over how to consider slaves in the apportionment process and the actual ratio of slaves to free people at that time.

For the most part, those who opposed slavery only wanted to consider the free people of a population, while those in favor wanted to include slaves in the population count. This would provide for slave holders to have many more seats in the House of Representatives and more representation in the Electoral College. Many ratios were considered, such as three-fourths, one-half, and one-quarter. After much debate, it would be James Madison that would suggest the Three-Fifths Compromise. However, the Three-Fifths Compromise would not be adopted until the Constitutional Convention because the Compromise was not approved by all of the states and the Articles of Federation required a unanimous vote.

The implementation of the Three-Fifths Compromise would greatly increase the representation and political power of slave-owning states. The Southern states, if represented equally, would have accounted for 33 of the seats in the House of Representatives. However, because of the Three-Fifths Compromise, the Southern states accounted for 47 seats in the House of Representatives of the first United States Congress of 1790. This would allow for the South to garner enough power at the political level, giving them control in Presidential elections.

However, as time moved forward, the Three-Fifths Compromise would not provide the advantage for which the Southern states and slave-owners had hoped. The Northern states grew more rapidly in terms of population than the South. Even though Southern states had essentially dominated all political platforms prior to the Civil War, afterward that control would be relinquished slowly but surely. It would not be until the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was be enacted in 1865 that the Three-Fifths Compromise would be rendered obsolete.

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Three Fifths Compromise - constitution | Laws.com

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The proposal for apportionment for the determination of each state's number of seats in the House of Representatives became an issue when the Constitution was being drafted in 1787. Aside from being a complex system and method for calculating the population through the census and then establishing a number of seats for representation, the issue as to who was eligible to be counted for the population was a topic of controversy.

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It is a process that was established by The Founding Fathers, it consists of 538 electors. It was a compromise of the vote for president and vice president from the popular vote and congressional vote.
-Emmy Cicala

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The Connecticut Compromise, or Great Compromise, reconciled the two sides by making up one house of the legislature, the Senate, of two equal representatives from each state, and the other house of legislature, the House of Representatives, to be distributed according to the population of each state.
-M.G

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The 3/5 compromise was a compromise made to make each slave 3/5 of a person to count towards the population in slave holdong states (mostly the south) while the north didn't want the slaves to count towards the population because the more of a population there was the more representation the state had. The North didn't have a lot of slaves held and that is why they didn't want the slaves to count towards the population while the south wanted it because they held slaves and they wanted more representation.-Thomas Vescovi

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The Electoral college is a process that is established in The Constitution. Electoral College is a compromise between voting for a President through Congress and then through to popular vote of the people. There must be a 270/538 vote in order to elect a President.
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Resource- Asia Principe

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(GOOGLE IMAGE) NOT MINES

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consists of 538 electors, majority of 270 electoral votes are requires to elect the president, the founding fathers created it for two reasons- the 1st purpose was to create a shield between population and the selection of a president and the 2nd as part of the structure of the government that gave extra power to the smaller state. The founding fathers were afraid of a direct election of a president
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The document was created as a solution to representation of states. Slaves weren't considered citizens back in the day. The problem with that is that some states still had slaves while others were free states. So southerners wanted to count all there slaves so that they could have more representation for the democracy. Northerners considered black people citizens. They felt that they should be considered as a part of the democracy because they were people. They didn't want southerners to gain more representation to be able to take advantage of the fact that they had multiple slaves.

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The Connecticut Plan was a compromise in the Legislative branch. Its to withhold in each states.

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The Connecticut Compromise – Today in History: July 16 | Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

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On July 16, 1787, a plan proposed by Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut’s delegates to the Constitutional Convention, established a two-house legislature. The Great Compromise, or Connecticut Compromise as it is often called, proposed a solution to the heated debate between larger and s…

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It was basically a compromise saying that colored people were recognized as only 3/5 of a person. In the NOrth they wanted to only count freed slaves as a vote but in the South they wanted to count all of their slaves so that they could get more votes in congress although they didn't want their slaves to vote. This was found in The US Constitution.

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Established a two-house legislature. It is often called Connecticut Compromise.

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Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

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The Connecticut Compromise – Today in History: July 16 | Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

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On July 16, 1787, a plan proposed by Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut’s delegates to the Constitutional Convention, established a two-house legislature. The Great Compromise, or Connecticut Compromise as it is often called, proposed a solution to the heated debate between larger and s…

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The Connecticut Compromise – Today in History: July 16