nother resolution agreed
to in the Committee of the Whole.

Resolved that the right of suffrage in the first branch of the
national Legislature ought not to be according to the rule
established in the articles of confederation; but according to
some equitable ratio of representation--namely in proportion to
the whole number of whites and other free citizens and
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 paying taxes in each State.[539]

The following propositions from New Jersey moved by Patterson closely
connected the apportionment of requisitions with that of
representation:

3. Resd. that whenever requisitions shall be necessary, instead
of the rule for making requisitions mentioned in the articles of
Confederation, the United States in Congs. be authorized to make
such requisitions in proportion to the whole number of white &
other free citizens & inhabitants of every age sex and condition
including those bound to servitude for a term of years & three
fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing
description, except Indians not paying taxes; that if such
requisitions be not compiled with, in the time specified therein,
to direct the collection thereof in the non complying States &
for that purpose to devise and pass acts directing & authorizing
the same; provided that none of the powers hereby vested in the
U. States in Congs. shall be exercised without the consent of at
least[540]

Again on the fifteenth of June it was suggested that

3. The rule of apportioning Requis: on the States shall be the
Whites 3/5 of all others--if the Req. is in arrear in any State,
Congress shall have authority to devise & pass acts remedial in
such case.

On the fifth of July the committee considering the question of
representation reported on the 40,000 basis which repeatedly came
before the Convention. It provided:

That in the first branch of the legislature, each of the states
now in the union, be allowed one member for every 40,000
inhabitants, of the description reported in the seventh
resolution of the committee of the whole house--That each state,
not containing that number, shall be allo