The Three-Fifths Compromise was another very significant compromise during the Constitutional Convention. It had allotted the South to have more representation in the House by counting slaves as 3/5ths of a person.
Reconstruction is largely seen as a failure, and many historians believe this was primarily because the South for so long had been dependent on slaves that in one swift motion the South's entire livelihood shifted. This dramatic shift was too much for the Southerners to absorb at once, and harsh Jim Crow laws sprang up.
1. George Washington, James Madison, George Mason, Roger Sherman.
2. Federalism, checks and balances, seperation of powers.
The Holy Roman Empire comprised most of Mordern Germany.
