"Slave states" and "Free states" did not exist at the time of the constitution's ratification - slavery was legal and practiced in all 13 of them. And while sou

"Slave states" and "Free states" did not exist at the time of the constitution's ratification - slavery was legal and practiced in all 13 of them. And while south Carolina and Georgia were amongst the bottom half of the stack population wise, they weren't significantly smaller than the other small states. The EC was Explicitly laid out in the federalist papers (68 to be specific) to exist for the purpose of protecting the smaller states from those like Massachusetts and Virginia.