As Thomas Jefferson wrote in his notes on the debates, the southern states would be taxed "according to their numbers and their wealth conjunctly, while the northern would be taxed on numbers only".
正如湯瑪斯·傑佛遜在辯論中寫的筆記，南方州份將依「其人數與富裕程度的結合來納稅，然而北方只需依據其人數」。