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Referred to as the Three-Fiths Compromise, the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 declared in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution that only three out of every five black people would be counted in the census for the purpose of establishing representation and taxation. The Three-Fifths comprimise was repealed 91 years later by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

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