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The Three-Fifths compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.
Think Progress » GOP Rep. Paul Broun Admits To Illegally Sending Back An Incomplete Census 2010
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Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty: Book summary and media reviews.
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They had a real (and all too true) understanding of the difficulties imposed by the end of Three-Fifths.
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They had a real (and all too true) understanding of the difficulties imposed by the end of Three-Fifths.
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Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty: Book summary and media reviews.
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Fourth Comings (2007) and Perfect Fifths (2009) also made the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Booksense, Barnes and Noble, Borders and other national bestseller lists.
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The information about Perfect Fifths shown above was first featured in "BookBrowse Previews" - BookBrowse's monthly online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks.
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Might the Three-Fifths Clause have been a wee bit of a defect?
RNC Attacks Kagan Over Praise For Thurgood Marshall [UPDATED] 2010
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Note: There is an exception to the six-year term for Senators who are elected to fill out a term, but that relates to the One-Third Clause of article I, § 3, the little known numerical relative of the Three-Fifths Clause, and to the Three Classes Clause.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional 2010
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Those who remember early American history might ponder the similarity to the Three-Fifths compromise.
David Isenberg: The Three Fifths PMC David Isenberg 2010
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