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How were slaves counted according to the original constitution of the us?
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Number of slaves counted for representation in the constitution?
it is a Compromise, which stipulates that three/fifths of the slave population would be counted for purposes of representation.
What was the document that freed slaves during the civil war?
Emancipation proclamation. Also note that it required a constitutional amendment, after the war, to legally free the slaves. The President does not actually have the power to alter the constitution by proclamation alone, and the original constitution did allow slavery.
The Compromise determined how slaves would be counted in a state's population.?
three-fifths
What Compromise determined how slaves would be counted in a state's population?
three-fifths
Does the us have slaves?
Not currently. Slaver was abolished with the 13 amendment of the Constitution
According to Article you Section 2 of the Constitution how were slaves to be counted when determining the number of congressional districts per state?
3/5 of the population of slaves were counted for each state
How was slaves treated in the constitution?
When determining representation by population, slaves were counted as 3/5ths of a person.
How are slaves and slavery referred to in the Constitution?
A slave was 3/4 of a person in the constitution when population was counted for the house.
How did the US Constitution address the issue of how slaves would be counted for purposes of representation in the house of represntive?
Every 5 slaves woulde counted as three people
Number of slaves counted for representation in the constitution?
it is a Compromise, which stipulates that three/fifths of the slave population would be counted for purposes of representation.
What were Slaves are counted as?
slaves were viewed as property not as people
An agreement to count slaves as three-fifths of a person was related to what?
This agreement was made in the original US Constitution, and is generally referred to as "The Great Compromise." The North didn't think that slaves should be counted at all, and the South thought that each slave should be counted as a full person. The reason for the argument was that representation in the house of representatives was based on population and each side wanted to be the majority.
What fraction of slaves were counted in a state?
five slaves will be counted as 3 people
Slaves were counted as what fraction of a person?
Slaves were counted as three-fifth's of a single person.
Was slaves counted as part of the population for representation as property for taxation?
was slaves counted as people or property
Which amendment were slaves counted as only three fifths of a person?
The "Three-Fifths Compromise" was not a constitutional amendment, but rather part of the actual Constitution written in 1787 (Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3), as an attempt to get both slave states, who wanted slaves to be counted as people because of taxation reasons, and non-slave states, who didn't want slaves to be counted as people, to ratify the document.
Which compromise determined how slaves would be counted in a state's population?
the slaves would be counted by THREE FIFTHS.....................................
