The Three-Fifths Compromise
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The Three-Fifths Compromise counted three-fifths of a state's enslaved population when apportioning House seats and direct taxes.
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Slaveholding states gained House seats from people those same states denied every right.
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The original constitutional text embedded slavery's arithmetic; amendment later removed it.