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At the Constitutional Convention, delegates from the Southern States wanted slaves to be counted in the census because they had a much higher slace population than the Northern States. So, Southern States wanted slaves to be counted in representation so there states would have more representatives. Northern states did not want this because they did not have nearly as many slaves as states in the South. So, if slaves were to have been included in the census, the South would have more representatives the North. The North also argued that slaves were not citizens of the US, therefore they should not be counted. Because of the dispute, the 3/5ths compromise was established at the Constitutional Convention. This compromise between the states decided that slaves would be calculated into the population for representation by adding up all of the slaves in a given state and then multiplying that number by the fraction 3/5. This compromise gave Southern States more representation than if slaves weren’t to be counted but it did not allow southern states to be overrpresented in the House of Representatives in comparison to the Northern States. Hope this helps!
