During the Constitutional Convention, disagreement over how to count enslaved people for the purpose of representation was settled by the

The Three-Fifths Compromise settled the dispute over how enslaved people would be counted when determining representation in Congress. It counted each enslaved person as three-fifths of a person for representation and direct taxation. The Great Compromise addressed how states would be represented in Congress, not how enslaved people would be counted.

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