By itself, however, the three-fifths compromise for representation was not enough. Facing deadlock at the Convention, Gouverneur Morris (representing Pennsylvania) moved on July 12 to add a ...

Under the notorious "three-fifths compromise" decided during the same convention — which allowed Southern states to count three-fifths of their enslaved populations in their total census ...

there was also an indication of northern reluctance to see the extension of southern political advantage by inflated representation (tied to the three-fifths compromise of the federal Constitution).

What about the slave population? And this is where the Three-Fifths Compromise comes in. The North did not want to count the slaves. The South did. And since slaves could not vote, this would give ...

Likewise, shielding the Direct Taxes Clause was an indirect way to emphasize the “Three-fifths Compromise” (Article I, Section 2, Clause 3) concerning the apportionment of direct taxes ...

This desire led to a compromise known as the “three-fifths compromise,” where each enslaved person would be counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation in Congress.