Why did Southern and Northern delegates disagree over whether the new Congress should have the commerce power?

Southerners feared that giving Congress power over commerce would let it regulate or end the transatlantic slave trade, threatening the institution of slavery in the South. The Constitution therefore protected the importation of enslaved people from federal prohibition until 1808. The correct choice is “Southerners feared it would lead to the end of slavery.”

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