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 ...

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).

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In 1787, the Three-Fifths Compromise was proposed at the Constitutional Convention, to count enslaved people in the South as three-fifths of a white person for purposes of taxation and ...

Delegates in the northern and southern states reached the three-fifths compromise agreement at the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787, which helped assign seats in the U.S. House of ...