 to count the slaves as people in terms of the census, but didn't want to give them any rights for being people. The North, on the other hand, said, you know what? No, we're not going along with this. If you're not giving them rights to be people, then they shouldn't even count in the census. So this way, then the North, if that proposal had gone through, it would have been closer to a 60-40 split in favor of the North, really diminishing the political power of the South.