![]() ![]() ![]() It was temporarily resolved when the delegates agreed that the slave trade could continue until 1808. Slavery itself was a thorny question that threatened to derail the Union. They agreed to count enslaved Africans as three-fifths of a person. One of the fiercest arguments was over congressional representation-should it be based on population or divided equally among the states? The framers compromised by giving each state one representative for every 30,000 people in the House of Representatives and two representatives in the Senate. There was little agreement about what form it would take. Although they had gathered to revise the Articles of Confederation, by mid-June they had decided to completely redesign the government. The delegates shuttered the windows of the State House and swore secrecy so they could speak freely. The Constitutional Convention assembled in Philadelphia in May of 1787. Courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Constitutional Convention Enlarge Washington as Statesman at the Constitutional Convention, 1856 ![]()
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