By itself, however, the three-fifths compromise for representation was not enough. Facing deadlock at the Convention, Gouverneur Morris (representing Pennsylvania) moved on July 12 to add a ...

there was also an indication of northern reluctance to see the extension of southern political advantage by inflated representation (tied to the three-fifths compromise of the federal Constitution).

The Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787 counted enslaved Black people as only three-fifths of a person for congressional apportionment. That system deliberately reduced the political influence of ...

One video is titled “Why the Three-Fifths Compromise Was Anti-Slavery.” That’s the agreement in the U.S. Constitution that said slaves would count as three-fifths of a person for population ...

In the famous compromise known as the three-fifths rule, the Constitution had allowed slave states to add 60 percent of their servile population to their white electorate in order to determine the ...