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The compromise offered a bicameral legislature with equal representation in the Senate and representation based on population in the House of Representatives- giving shared power to both large and small states in the new government.
The Virginia plan! It said that representation in Congress would be based on population.
David Wilmot, a Pennsylvania Congressman.
The Three-fifths Compromise was proposed by delegates James Wilson and Roger Sherman during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. It was added as Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 to the United States Constitution.
The majority of the delegates traveled to the convention and boarded in taverns so the majority of their meals were tavern food. They ate a lot of fatty meats that were usually smoked or dried and consumed large amounts of ciders and rums.