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What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?

April 26, 2017compromise three-fifths

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What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?

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The Three-Fifths compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. ChaCha!