During the constitutional convention, the commerce and slave trade compromise gave congress the power to
choose its own members as well as the nation’s chief executive.
regulate commerce in both the north and the south, but could not yet regulate the slave trade.
amend the constitution of the united states with a majority vote.
regulate commerce in the south, but not in the north.

Read the following quotation from catholic bishop jacques-bénigne bossuet at the court of louis xiv. rulers then act as the ministers of god and as his lieutenants on earth. it is through them that god exercises his empire. . consequently, as we have seen, the royal throne is not the throne of a man, but the throne of god himself. what best summarizes the bishop’s point of view? b). kings on earth rule with god’s authority.