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…showed last 75 words of 417 total…The delegates voted that slaveholders could cross state lines in order to catch run away slaves, because they thought that this issue was not important enough to split up the union. The Constitutional Conventions was the greatest compromise ever made. Everyone at the convention realized that the only way to make a unified government was to compromise on ideas. If they had refused to compromise they would have never made a strong and functional government.