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three-fifths compromise. Under the U.S. Constitution, slaves were considered property and had no vote, but in order to re- dress the imbalance of representation between the populous North and the sparsely settled South, the southern states were allowed by the Founding Fathers to count each slave as three- fifths of a person for their congressional apportionment. This meant in practice that the more slaves there were, the less pow- er they had and the more power the slaveholders enjoyed. |