The Three Fifths Compromise

The three fifths compromise, in the wrangling that went on at the constitutional convention of 17 87, it was the southern states they would have preferred to count slaves as two people. In the end, the slaves were counted as three fifths of a person for purposes of both apportionment and direct taxibility. So one favored the southern states, and the other favored the northern right. But in the end, really all toby's trying to do is make these congress people acknowledge that this original language was archaic. And that's sort of his way in.