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Commerce and Slave Trade             Compromises

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Commerce and Slave Trade             Compromises

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The northern states that thought congress should be able to regulate trade with other countries. The southern states feared that Congress would use this power to tax exports and that Congress might interfere with slave trading. The compromise was that Congress could regulate trade between the states and foreign countries but Congress could not interfere with slave trade.

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A way of government consisting of a president, courts, and a congress with two houses. Representation in each house would depend on state's population. This conspicuously favored the larger, more populated states. This plan was considered a federal government, similar to today's.

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The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. It was used as a compromise between the Federalists and the Antifederalists, in order to resolve conflict over the Antifederalists' belief that the Constitution was infringing on natural rights.

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The addition of the policy that major elections were decided by population of an individual state, as well as seats in the senate, giving each state a minimum of 3 electoral votes. A total of 270 electoral votes is needed to elect a president. Used as a compromise to give each states an equal amount of power in deciding democratic positions.

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A way of government consisting of a congress with two houses. In one house, each state would have equal representation. In the other house, representation would be based on each state's population. This was agreed upon both sides.

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Firstly, the southern states wanted enslaved people to be counted as their population. Northern states opposed this proposition. In this compromise both sides agreed to count enslaved people as 3/5 of a vote (for representation and taxes).

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A way of government consisting of a one house congress in which states have equal representation. This conspicuously favored the smaller, less populated states. This plan was similar to government under the Articles.