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Results Senate (small states): 2 Senators per state regardless of population. 100 Senators total (today) **from New Jersey Plan House of Representatives (large states): Votes / delegates per state based on population. 435 members of the House (today). **from Virginia Plan  Problem of how to organize Congress was solved.  The Great Compromise satisfied both large & small states.

*Slavery was formally abolished with the ratification of the 13th Amendment (1865).

“The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person”. “No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due”.

Anti-Federalist Federalist