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The US Constitution side steps the issue of slavery. The writers at the Constitutional Convention did this on purpose in order to ensure a higher chance of the new constitution being passed and also to reduce conflict between convention members. It counts slaves as 1/5 of a person when taking into consideration how many people reside within a state. This number went towards how much representation went to slave states within the House of Representatives.

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