2015/12/30 by Jeremy C. Pope · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Judicial and Constitutional Studies #American Constitutional Law and Politics #Legal and Constitutional Studies #Compromise #Apportionment #Law #Convention #State (computer science) #Representation (politics) #House of Representatives #Political science #History #Politics #Computer science #Algorithm
paper · doi:10.1002/9781118663202.wberen571
openalex publication_date 2015/12/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
The three‐fifths compromise was an agreement between state delegations at the US Constitutional Convention. For purposes of representational apportionment, the agreement was to count each slave as three‐fifths of a person in the House of Representatives. The agreement worked to the benefit of whites in the southern states, who gained greater representation in the Congress. The effect of the clause was formally ended by the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment in the wake of the Civil War, although the end of slavery (and the Thirteenth Amendment) rendered it moot even before that.