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jan 1, 1787 - 3/5 Compromise

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Instiuted by James Wilson and Roger Sherman at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Proposed that when appointing Representatives, electing government officials, and taxes, slave population would be counted as 3/5 of total size in order to prevent giving southern states advantage in the house of reps over the northern states that did not have slaves.

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jan 1, 1787
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~ 238 years ago