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Which statement best explains the Three-Fifths Compromise?
When the Constitution was ratified by three-fifths of the states, it would become temporary law for those states.
For the purposes of determining the population of a state, three out of every five enslaved people would be counted.
Members of the House of Representatives would represent three-fifths of the population of the state.
Three-fifths of the proposed rights would be added to a bill of rights.

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For the purposes of determining the population of a state, three out of every five enslaved people would be counted.

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The correct answer is: For the purposes of determining the population of a state, three out of every five enslaved people would be counted.

When the US Constitution was being drafted the determination of each state’s number of seats was a big problem. The main issue was who was eligible to be counted for the population - southern states had more slaves than northern states -. The Three-Fifths Compromise was proposed by James Wilson and Roger Sherman and it determined that they would count three out of every five slaves as a person as a purpose of representation.

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