The Three-Fifths
Compromise
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.
In response to this issue,
Northern delegates proposed
the Three-Fifths Compromise,
which read like this . . .
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