A Compendium of the History of the United States From the Earliest Settlements T
A Compendium of the History of the United States From the Earliest Settlements T
Alexander Hamilton Stephens
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It was an organized resist ance to the collection of debts. 8. In the mean time it was discovered that thg basis fixed upon in their Articles of Union for the quotas of the States respectively was not a just one. That basis was the rela tive value of real estate in the several States. This value was by no means uniform. The proper basis, it was thought, was the relative population of the States. In April, 1783, therefore, Congress proposed to the States to amend the Constitution in this particu...lar, by making population the basis of the States quotas. This was the original idea in 1776 when the Articles of Union were first brought forward. But a difficulty soon arose in the dis cussion, which caused its abandonment at that time. The difficulty sprung from the fact that there were more negro slave laborers in some of the States than in others, and it was insisted that negro laborers were not as efficient in the 8. What is said of the basis fixed upon in the Articles of Union for the quotas of the States ?
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