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>the compromise itself had nothing to do with the Electoral College's creation or design Then what were they compromising on? The formation and continuation of
by undersuit 7y ago
>the compromise itself had nothing to do with the Electoral College's creation or design
Then what were they compromising on? The formation and continuation of the US Government. Without the compromise there is no Electoral College.
- beerandt 7y agoThat's not true at all. The 3/5s compromise affected the resulting balance of power, but the system itself was about preventing any one state from dominating the federal government. (New York was the concern at the time.) Even if slavery didn't exist, the small state / big state dynamic still required a mechanism to balance the voting power between states. (This is often referred to as the Connecticut compromise.)