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Welcome
to U.S. history!
 | 1787 Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia. |
| **Here the committee decided that one member of the lower house should be
selected for every forty thousand inhabitants of a state. As not to shortchange the South,
a slave was to be counted as three fifths of a freeman. |
| During these sessions the convention concluded that the president should be
selected by an electoral college, a body of prominent and informed men in each state
chosen by the voters. Whoever received the second largest number of votes automatically to
become the vice president. |
| Delegates also armed the chief executive with the powers to veto over
legislation as well as the right to nominate judges. |
| *Causes,** leading causes, ***immediate leading causes for a Civil War. |
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