...Witherspoon was afterwards substituted for that reported by the Committee, but the final gratification of the articles did not take place until March, 1781....assented to the change at the time of the formation of the Constitution, and we have here substantially the provision which was afterwards inserted in that...

...Committee of Detail. ARTICLE VII. SECT. 3. The proportions of direct ^axation shall be regulated by the whole number of white and other free citizens...all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing de* The object was to lessen the eagerness, on one side, for, and the opposition, on the other, to...

...established in the Articles of Confederation, but according to some equitable ratio of representation, viz. : in proportion to the whole number of white and other...those bound to servitude for a term of years, and threefifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, .except Indians, not...

...equitable ratio of representation, viz. : in proportion to the whole number of white and other five citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex and condition,...those bound to servitude for a term of years, and threefifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians, not...

...in the articles of confederation, but according to some equitable rate of representation ; namely, in proportion to the whole number of white, and other...those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not...

...; namely, in proportion to the whole number of white, and ether free citizens and inhabitant •*, of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not...

...in the articles of confederation, but according to some equitable rate of representation ; namely, in proportion to the whole number of white, and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sех, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all...

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...was to be in proportion " to the whole number of white and other free inhabitants of every age, and sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians, not...

...second branch by the individual Legislatures ; that the right of suffrage in both branches ought to be " in proportion to the whole number of white and other...description, except Indians not paying taxes, in each State " ; — in other words, that the right of each State to an equal vote in Congress, which had been the...