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lozanna [386]
3 years ago
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What is the three-fifths clause

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REY [17]3 years ago
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Article one, section two of the Constitution of the United States declared that any person who was not free would be counted as three-fifths of a free individual for the purposes of determining congressional representation. The "Three-Fifths Clause" thus increased the political power of slaveholding states.

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