A compromise forged in secrecy during the summer of 1787 led to the creation of the United States Constitution.

The scene. Origins of the Convention -- The delegates and the State House. Washington and Madison -- In Convention. Randolph introduces the Virginia plan -- Federal versus national. The "two supremes.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s defense of the Three-Fifths Compromise — which he called “a great move” by the country’s founders toward ending slavery — has thrust the Republican official into the ...

Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith recently posted a short video denouncing the “DEI radical revisionist history” taught by “professors at woke schools.” His target: the idea that the Three-Fifths Compromise ...