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what impact did the 3/5 compromise have on the passage of the Constitution at the Philadelphia convention

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Politicians needed a compromise that would assure southerners that slavery would continue.

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well the 3/5 comprise had allowed for the Southern states to count only "3/5" of their slave population in addition to their total population in order to have enough representatives like the populations of the Northern statesĀ 
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