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What Were The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Being A Northern Colonists
In this time period, I would have been a wife to a delegate, seeing as I am a female and can not be a delegate myself, and I would've like to be a Northern colonist. As a woman, I would have felt pressure caring for any children that I might have had due to the idea of republican motherhood though I would have had better opportunities in education than the original colonist women probably had (Kennedy 159).
Being an individual person, I would probably have my own opinions when it came to certain things. I would most likely be for the abolishment of the slave trade because, being from the north, there would not be as much need for slaves where I lived because most slaves lived in the southern colonies and worked on large southern plantations (Kennedy 68-69). It was also …show more content…
If I lived in a bigger state, I would most likely be for proportional representation because there were probably more people in my state, but if I was a smaller state, I would most likely be for equal representation because I would feel like the bigger states would be at a bigger advantage with proportional representation due to their likely more populous size (Kennedy 170). I would feel like having one house be proportional representation and one being equal representation would be fair so that each state would have the advantages and disadvantages to each type of legislative representation. Another issue was whether to count slaves in representation or not. Being from the North, I would most likely agree with other northern states that wrong to count slaves if they weren't even counted as citizens, and even with the compromise, I would feel like the southern states would be at more of an advantage when it came to representation due to their large slave population (pg 172). Even with all this being said, I would not be able to know my situation or opinions if I actually lived in this time
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