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By devising the "three fifths" compromise and entering it into Article I Section 2 of the Constitution as census of enumeration scheme, the framers of the Constitution shamelessly sidestepped the issue of slavery by relegating slaves to being known as "other persons" who comprise only three fifths of a person hood and in doing so condoned slavery, and set precedent for the notion that not all people are created equal. Because slaves were deemed to be only three fifths of a person, they could not enjoy the rights belonging to a whole person and so the business of slavery went about its day to day business until the passage of the 13th Amendment and the Civil War that followed.

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