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Another allowed representatives to the Slave States according to the whole number of free persons and “three fifths of all other persons,” in consideration that direct taxes should be apportioned in the same way.
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Sumner describes another compromise that allowed slave states to count a portion of their enslaved population for representation purposes.
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