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>The 2-person Senate and the 3/5ths compromise limited the power of SLAVE states to try to claim power in the Federal government by counting their slaves as pop
by banana_feather 3y ago
>The 2-person Senate and the 3/5ths compromise limited the power of SLAVE states to try to claim power in the Federal government by counting their slaves as population.
In 1789, there were 8 slave states and 5 free states. Giving each state 2 votes in the senate and counting their enslaved population at all was without question a political benefit to slave states.