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All right Eight pushers thes air about this paragraph right

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here going mumbling Teo Representative Director you'll be one of

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the several states when including the union goingto bring in

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numbers from the term the man in the whole number

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of free persons alone in the bounds of Germany's including

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our okay The question the inclusion of the above clause

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in the Constitution led to which of the following axe

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As pioneering as they were our founding fathers did everything

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possible The sidestepped the issue of slavery while writing the

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Constitution Still they had to decide how to count slaves

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as members of a state's population because population determined how

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many representatives of state would have in the house Well

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the eventual solution was the three fifths compromise quoted in

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the excerpt above a real low point in the founding

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of our Nation So the interest see the Missouri compromise

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our could be called the misery compromise Alright loser ball

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Well after the Northwest ordinance abolished slavery in the Northwest

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Territory like a would have you there people on each

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side of the slavery debate began to fear the acceptance

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of new states into the union The Missouri compromise was

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an attempt to balance power between free and slave holding

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states in Congress while Pinckney's treaty established peaceful relations between

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Spain and the United States So that really came out

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of nowhere So the answer here is See the misery

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compromise

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