Read the excerpt from Robert Yates’s notes from the Constitutional Convention on June 11, 1787.Mr. Wilson was of opinion, and therefore moved, that the mode of representation of each of the States ought to be from the number of its free inhabitants, and of every other description three fifths to one free inhabitant.

Wilson’s proposal counted each state’s free inhabitants fully and counted three-fifths of other inhabitants for representation. This was the basis of the Three-Fifths Compromise, which addressed how enslaved people would be counted when determining representation in Congress. The Virginia and New Jersey Plans proposed different structures for representation, while the Great Compromise settled how states would be represented in the two houses of Congress.

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