The Framers overcame internal squabbling by agreeing to the Great Compromise, which
A) recognized the existence of slavery but allowed the federal government to ban the international slave trade.
B) factored three-fifths of the slave population into calculations of representation and taxation.
C) allowed the people to elect their congressmen directly, but stipulated that presidents be elected indirectly through the Electoral College.
D) created a bicameral system, based on proportional representation in one house and state-by-state voting in the other.
E) dictated that members of both the House and the Senate would be elected directly by the people.
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