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Mr. Sherman [Connecticut] was for leaving the clause as it stands. He disapproved of the slave trade: yet as the States were now possessed of the right to import slaves, as the public good did not require it to be taken from them, & as it was expedient (convenient) to have as few objections as possible to the proposed scheme of Government, he thought it best to leave the matter as we find it. He observed that the abolition of slavery seemed to be going on in the U. S. & that the good sense of the several States would probably by degrees compleat (complete) it.
Sherman is in favor of which of the following?
a. Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
b. Presidential Election Compromise
c. The Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)
d. Three-ifths Compromise