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What impact did the Three-Fifths Compromise have on the passage of the Constitution at the Philadelphia Convention?

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This was the final compromise between the Northern and Southern states that allowed every state to be content enough to sign the Constitution

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Politicians needed a compromise that would allow southerners the security of maintaining slavery.

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