One issue the framers had to deal with was the three-fifths compromise. The slave-holding states wanted the slaves to be counted as people for the House of Representatives, even though they were treated and counted as property. Their motives were that; they would have more population, which means more representatives, which ultimately means more power. The non-slave holding states on the other hand opposed this because that would mean that the slave-holding states would have more votes then them, which means they would have more power, also if slaves which were basically property could count as representation, what else could? The final compromise was as follows; tax and slavery were linked; each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation at the house, and also three-fifths of a slave would count as tax. I think this was a decent compromise, favoring th

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