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How did slavery influence the delegates decisions to count enslaved people as three-fifths of a person with regards to representation? How would this decision increase the power of the slave states?

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Three-fifths consensus, consensus arrangement at the U.s. Government Constitutional Amendment (1787) by representatives from either the Northerners and Southerners that three-fifths of the number of slaves must be counted to establish direct taxes and participation in the House of Representatives.

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