...the first branch of the legislature ought not to be according to the rules of representation, namely, in proportion to the whole number of white and other...age, sex, and condition, including those bound to service for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing...

...180.— March 28. those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all other persons hot comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes in each state ; to be comprehended in a triennial census, and transmitted to congress. This motion prevailed by a...

...postponed ; in order to add, after the words, " equitable ratio of representation," the words following : " in proportion to the whole number of white and other...comprehended in the foregoing description, except the Indians not paying taxes, in each State," — this being the rule in the act of Congress, agreed...

...where it stands in the form just stated; viz., " the votesof the States in ¿oíAirancAcs are to be 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...

...moved by Mr. Wilson and Mr. Pinckney, that the number of representatives from each state should be 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," and carried by the...

...moved by Judge Wilson of Pennsylvania, "that the right of suffrage in the lower house, ought to be in proportion to the whole number of ' white and other free citizens' and inhabitants," &c. The motion was seconded by Mr. Pinckney of South Carolina, who it seemed did not hesitate to ad...

...proportion to the whole number of white, or other free citizens in each, Deluding those bound to service for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons. While they yielded this point, they insisted on an equal vote in ihe senate. To this the large Sates...

...expenses should be paid by the several States in proportion to the whole number of white and other free inhabitants, 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...

...age, sex and condition, including those bound to servitude for a number of years, and three-fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians, not paying taxes; that if such requisitions be not complied with in the time to be specified therein, to direct the collection...

...authorized to make such requisitions, in proportion to the whole number of white or other free citizens or inhabitants, of every age, sex and condition, including those bound to servitude for a number of years, and three-fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description,...