Understand that, at the time they were drafting the constitution, that each of the states was significantly more genuine and capable than the youngster United States. This trade off spoke the truth what number of delegates every state would send to Congress.
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Is there any more to the problem?
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This question is incorrect, the correct question should be
What were some ways that Northerners defied the Fugitive Slave Act?
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The Fugitive Slave act was Part of the Compromise of 1850 . That anyone that helped a fugitive could either be fined or imprisoned. Though Some Northerners resisted, declined and refused to obey the new law.
Henry David Thoreau in his essay of 1849 titled "Civil Disobedience," wrote that if the law "requires you to be the agent and cause of injustice to another, then I say, break the law."
The Northerner juries declined to convict people who were accused of breaking this new law.
People gave out money to buy freedom for the enslaved people, and the Freed African Americans and whites formed a network, or an interconnected system, called the "Underground Railroad" which is intended to help runaways to find their way to freedom.
Later in 1953, Democrat Franklin Pierce became the president and he intended to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act upon assuming office
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The 3/5ths compromise said that 3/5ths of all slaves would count as free white men for the state population count. This was very unfair as most northern states had very little slaves compared to the Southern states. More people counting towards a states population meant more people representing that state in congress. The great compromise stated that the lower house's number of reps would be based on population of a state and the upper house would be based on equal representation for each state. The northern states didn't like this as they had less people in their states and wanted equal representation so that they wouldn't always be outnumbered by the southern states. The Southern states wanted the opposite.
