Question

1. According to the constitution, how many people represent each state in the senate? 2.accoring to the constitution, how many people represent each state in the House of Representatives? 3. Who could vote for representatives in the lower house? 4. Who would elect the senators? 5. Who would elect the president? 6. What does the “fugitive clause” say in the constitution? 7. What was the three-fifths compromise?

Answer 1

1. 2

2. A different number of representatives for each state depending on population

3. Any white man who paid taxes

4. The state legislatures

5. Members of an electoral college

6. Governments of Free states were required to help recapture runaway slaves who had escaped.

7. Slaves count as 3/5 of a person when counting population for representation.

Answer 2

1) 2 people represent each state in the Senate.

2)It depends on the population of the state.

3) upper house is the Senate

4)Senators are by law directly elected by the voters in their respective states.

5)On election day, although the names of the presidential candidates appear on the ballots, people are actually voting to choose electors who are pledged to vote for that candidate.

6)The Fugitive Slave Clause of the United States Constitution, also known as either the Slave Clause or the Fugitives From Labor Clause, is Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3, which requires a "person held to service or labor" (usually a slave, apprentice, or indentured servant) who flees to another state

7) a compromise reached between delegates from the southern and northern states during the 1787 Constitutional Convention that allowed for 3/5 of a state's slave population to count for their Congressional Representation.