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.
Slaves were counted by population by three-fifths of a person.
Prior to the 14th Amendment, slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of congressional representation and taxation, as established by the Three-Fifths Compromise in 1787. This compromise was part of the U.S. Constitution and reflected the contentious issue of slavery in the early United States. The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, granted full citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S., effectively nullifying the three-fifths clause.
Amendment XIV
The Three-Fifths Compromise if i'm not mistaken. It counted slaves as 3/5 of a person when determining the amount of representatives a state received in congress (based on population)
Prior to the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868, enslaved individuals were counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation and taxation under the Three-Fifths Compromise established in the U.S. Constitution in 1787. This compromise was a contentious political solution aimed at balancing the interests of slaveholding and non-slaveholding states in terms of congressional representation. The 14th Amendment ultimately abolished this practice by granting full citizenship and equal representation to all individuals born or naturalized in the United States.
They were counted as three fifths of a person.
Slaves were counted by population by three-fifths of a person.
The Three-Fifths Compromise of the Constitutional Convention established that slaves were to be counted as three-fifths of a person when taking a census for apportionment. This was nullified by a later Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary service.
The Three-Fifths Compromise, not an amendment, was established in the United States Constitution in 1787 determining that enslaved individuals would be counted as three-fifths of a person for both representation in Congress and taxation purposes.
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Before the 13Th amendment, slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person.
it is a Compromise, which stipulates that three/fifths of the slave population would be counted for purposes of representation.
William Blount believed that slaves should be counted as part of the population for the purpose of determining representation in Congress and for the allocation of taxes. He supported the Three-Fifths Compromise, where slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person for these purposes.
When it came to the population of a state, slaves counted as three-fifths (3/5) of a person.
Every slave was counted as three-fifths of a person.
Amendment XIV
In the United States, slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of representation in the House of Representatives according to the Three-Fifths Compromise in the Constitution. This practice was in place from 1787 until the abolition of slavery after the Civil War.