The Following Questions Refer to the Passage Below

The following questions refer to the passage below.
"...Is there one person of understanding & reflection among you who will not admit that every consideration of justice,humanity,and safety,forbids that any more Negroes should be brought into your state,and yet it is well known that the avarice of your citizens,and the rage for acquiring that property has broke through all legal restrictions,...Trust not on your Eastern friends for aid,if you do not enforce righteous measures for your own safety;...Already they begin to resist that principle in the Constitution which admits the Negroes of the Southern States to increase the number of Representatives in the Congress of the United States."
William Few,Letter to Georgia Governor Edward Telfair,1804
-Which of the following best explains the impact of the United States' Constitution on the issue addressed in the letter above?

A) By postponing a definite solution to the question of slavery, the Constitution established the grounds for conflict that would continue until resolved by the Civil War.
B) By addressing the needs of the slave-based Southern economies, the Constitution preserved the regional differences that had defined the colonial era.
C) By allowing the slave states to dominate the United States government, the Constitution encouraged the growth of the slave trade.
D) By severely limiting the rights of slaveholders, the Constitution attempted to abide by Revolutionary ideals of freedom without dividing the infant nation.