Three-Fifths Clause in the United States
Three-Fifths Clause
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled THREE-FIFTHS CLAUSEArticle I, section 2, clause 3, of the United States Constitution originally provided that members of the house of representatives would be apportioned among the states on a formula that added to “free Persons” (including indentured servants but excluding untaxed Indians) “three
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