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How were slaves to be counted when determing the number of congressional districts per state?

Slaves were counted by population by three-fifths of a person.


What did the three fifths compromise do?

The Three Fifths Compromise solved the problem of how population should be counted in slave states in terms of representation in Congress as well as tax purposes. Since black slaves made up a significant part of the population in the southern states, and they did not have the right to vote, it was declared that the slaves would represent three fifths of a white person. Short answer: allowed the slaves states to count a slave as three fifths of a person


What do the three references to slavery in the Constitution touch on?

Slave trading was to be banned in the entire United States by 1808.Slaves count as three-fifths of a person for state representation in Congress.States were expected to return runaway slaves to their rightful owners.


What do the three references to slavery in the constitution touch in?

Slave trading was to be banned in the entire United States by 1808.Slaves count as three-fifths of a person for state representation in Congress.States were expected to return runaway slaves to their rightful owners.


An agreement to count slaves as three-fifths of a person was related to?

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.