Question 1 • MI-Government/Civics 2023
After agreeing on the Great Compromise, the delegates next addressed how enslaved people would be counted for representation and taxation. This debate led to the Three-Fifths Compromise, which counted each enslaved person as three-fifths of a person for those purposes. The New Jersey and Virginia plans had been proposals considered before the Great Compromise.
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