Which of the following statements is / are true about the accommodations made to slave states in the Original Constitution? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)

Although most people believe the Founders adopted the Electoral College instead of direct popular election of Presidents because they sought to protect slavery, the real reason they did it was because they thought the people could not be trusted to responsibly elect the President through direct elections.

he Three Fifths Clause protected slave states by giving them more representatives in the House of Representatives than they would get if slaves were not counted at all for purposes of apportioning seats in the House.

James Madison and other Founders at the Constitutional Convention thought it best to leave the word slavery out of the Constitution because they did not believe the Constitution actually did anything to protect the institution of slavery.

No delegate at the Constitutional Convention was morally opposed to slavery.

The Original Constitution had nothing to say about either the Atlantic Slave Trade or fugitive slaves.

1. Although most people believe the Founders adopted the Electoral College instead of direct popular election of Presidents because they sought to protect slavery, the real reason they did it was because they thought the people could not be trusted to responsibly elect the President through direct elections.

Alexander Hamilton outlined in Federalist No. 68 the advantages to the Electoral College. The electors would come from the people, and would be chosen for one time only, to avoid a permanent body that could influence elections. He argued that the electors would have information that was unavailable to the general public, so they would be able to make better decisions.

James Madison was also a supporter of the Electoral College, as he believed it would prevent the creation of factions.

2. The Three Fifths Clause protected slave states by giving them more representatives in the House of Representatives than they would get if slaves were not counted at all for purposes of apportioning seats in the House.

During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Wilson and Roger Sherman proposed a compromise between slave states and northern states. When trying to decide whether slaves would count as population for the purpose of allocating seats in the House of Representatives, the solution was that three out of every five slaves would count as a person for this purpose.

The effect of the compromise was that it gave the southern states a third more seats than is slaves had not been counted, which led their interest dominating the government until 1861.