Three‐Fifths Compromise
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23713619 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Collins Pope (0000-0002-4045-1354, Brigham Young University, corresponding author), Jeremy Pope |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118663202.wberen571 |
| OpenAlex | W2337025565 |
| ISBN | 9781118663202 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
The three‐fifths compromise was an agreement between state delegations at the US Constitutional Convention. For purposes of representational apportionment, the agreement was to count each slave as three‐fifths of a person in the House of Representatives. The agreement worked to the benefit of whites in the southern states, who gained greater representation in the Congress. The effect of the clause was formally ended by the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment in the wake of the Civil War, although the end of slavery (and the Thirteenth Amendment) rendered it moot even before that.
Algorithm · Apportionment · Compromise · Convention · House of Representatives · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · State (computer science) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Computer Science · History · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |