Question

Slave state legislators had more power in what part of Congress during the 1850s?

A. The House of Representatives
B. The Senate
C. The Executive
D. The Supreme Court

Answer 1

A. The House of Representatives

The 3/5 clause gave the slave states more representation due to the large number of slaves in those states. Though Democrats were powerful in the Court and Executive Branch, the House of Representatives was the source of federal power.

Answer 2

b. the senate term was a settlement agreement between the constitutional framers and the ones who needed a robust. The freelance Senate and people hesitant arbitrary use of power of an aristocratically higher house,