In response to this issue, Northern delegates proposed the Three-Fifths Compromise, which read like this . . .
Representatives and
direct Taxes
shall be apportioned
among the several
States which may be included within this Union, according to
their respective
Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons,
including
those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed,
three fifths
of all other Persons.
THIS IS NO LONGER THE CASE!!
The
Three-Fifths Compromise