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Read the excerpt from Robert Yates’s notes from the Constitutional Convention on June 11, 1787.

Mr. Wilson was of opinion, and therefore moved, that the mode of representation of each of the States ought to be from the number of its free inhabitants, and of every other description three fifths to one free inhabitant.

What was James Wilson’s most notable contribution to the drafting of the Constitution?

the Three-Fifths Compromise
the Virginia Plan
the Great Compromise

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The Three-Fifths Compromise.

James Wilson moved that representation be based on free inhabitants with "every other description" (slaves) counted as three-fifths of a person, which produced the Three‑Fifths Compromise.