Great Quote by Heather Cox Richardson
“New states were supposed to join the union when they reached a certain population, but in the late 19th century, population mattered a great deal less than partisanship.”
“New states were supposed to join the union when they reached a certain population, but in the late 19th century, population mattered a great deal less than partisanship.”
![“...[at the Constitutional Convention] the States were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but principally from their having or not having slaves. It did not lie between the large and small States: it lay between the Northern and Southern.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f2a/james-madison-373_constitutional-conve_at-the-constitutional-convention-the-sta_1425365.jpg)
