On February 12, 1788, Madison in the Federalist Letter No. 54, stated that the Constitutional three-fifths compromise clause was the best alternative for the slaves current condition and for determining representation of citizens in Congress.

Following the Civil War, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments changed this arrangement by ( respectively ) abolishing slavery, and superseding the three-fifths clause by requiring that a state's population for apportionment purposes was to be determined by " counting the whole number of Persons " in the state, " excluding Indians not taxed.

Although, the clause still only counts " three-fifths of all slaves " for the population total of each State, just as it did in the U. S. with the Three-Fifths Compromise, " The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every fifty thousand ".

Identifying the South ’ s domination of the government as the cause of much of their problems, the proposed amendments included “ the repeal of the three-fifths clause, a requirement that two-thirds of both houses of Congress agree before any new state could be admitted to the Union, limits on the length of embargoes, and the outlawing of the election of a president from the same state to successive terms, clearly aimed at the Virginians .” The war was over before the proposals were submitted to President Madison.

Following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ( 1865 ), the three-fifths clause was rendered moot.

Also, the tariff replaced a tax system where slave states previously had to pay more in taxes for the increased representation they got in the U. S. House of Representatives under the three-fifths clause.

Since slavery was abolished, the three-fifths compromise no longer applied to counting the population of blacks.

The three-fifths majority was replaced with a fifty percent majority.

A three-fifths majority was required, and the changes passed by a vote of 539 to 357, meaning that Lang's support enabled the bill to pass by a one-vote margin.

Together with a provision ( Article 42 ) that certain decisions required the majority consent of each half ( Czech and Slovak ) of the Chamber of the Nations, and a provision ( Article 41 ) that constitutional amendments, organic laws, the election of the president and declarations of war required a three-fifths supermajority not only in the Chamber of the People but also of each half ( Czech and Slovak ) of the Chamber of the Nations, this institutional reform was designed to end Slovak fear of Czech domination of the legislative branch of the government.

They wanted to plan an event that would capture the attention of Congress ( which was dominated by representatives from the South because of the three-fifths compromise under the Constitution ) and the country to promote an end to slavery in the District of Columbia.

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.

The three-fifths ratio was not a new concept.

What the SIGGRAPH audience saw was the first three-fifths or so of the film, ending a cliffhanger moment with Tinny running into his box and watching in horror through the box's cellophane as Billy advances towards him.

Most importantly it was provided that the Senate could, if three-fifths of its members agreed, demand a binding referendum on any bill.

Perle's important work on Berg includes documenting that the third act of Lulu, rather than being an unfinished sketch, was actually three-fifths complete and that the Lyric Suite contains a secret program dedicated to Berg's love-affair.

In 1913, the army reserve's drill hall, which now lay between the rear of the Art Gallery and the rapidly expanding University of Bristol, was purchased by the two institutions, three-fifths of the complex falling to the Museum and Art Gallery, the rest to the University.

10 June 2004: Former President, Gaston Flosse, and his conservative party, Tahoeraa Huiraatira, stayed away from the presidential ( Le président de la Polynésie française ) election, thus invalidating it, as a three-fifths quorum was required.

His special concern in this election was the effort being made by Whigs to determine apportionment in the state legislature based on the " federal ratio " of each slave counting as three-fifths of a person.

Most importantly it was provided that the Seanad could, if three-fifths of its members agreed, demand a binding referendum on any bill.

The Three-Fifths Compromise assessing population by adding the number of free persons to three-fifths of " all other persons " ( slaves ) was agreed to without serious dispute.

Years earlier, when attempting to assess a national taxation system, the Confederation Congress had concluded that a slave was three-fifths as productive as a free person.

The emancipation of slaves would give the South more voters and cause the end of the three-fifths compromise in the Constitution in terms of Congressional apportionment.

Jefferson owed his election victory to the South's inflated number of Electors, which counted slaves under the three-fifths compromise.

There were sectional interests to be balanced by the three-fifths compromise ; reconciliation on Presidential term, powers, and method of selection ; jurisdiction the federal judiciary.

The three-fifths compromise ensured that Virginia, with its large number of slaves, initially had the largest bloc in the House of Representatives.

The final compromise of counting " all other persons " as only three-fifths of their actual numbers reduced the power of the slave states relative to the original southern proposals, but increased it over the northern position.

Also, the amendments denied Congress any power to interfere with the interstate slave trade or with slavery in the existing Southern states and made the fugitive slave law and three-fifths compromise perpetual in duration.

The compromise measure provided for counting three-fifths of the slave population in state totals, which led to Southern states having disproportionate power.

Similarly, Butler supported counting the full slave population in the states ' totals for the purposes of Congressional apportionment, but had to be satisfied with the compromise to count three-fifths of the slaves toward that end.

The convention discussed removing the three-fifths compromise which gave slave states more power in Congress and requiring a two-thirds supermajority in Congress for the admission of new states, declarations of war, and laws restricting trade.

The three-fifths compromise had been brokered at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

Jefferson owed his election victory to the South's inflated number of Electors, which counted slaves as part of the population for representation under the three-fifths compromise.

In 1963, North Korea signed a boundary treaty with the People's Republic of China, which settled the boundary between the two at the Yalu / Amnok ( Chinese / Korean names ) and Tumen Rivers ; this agreement primarily stipulated that three-fifths of Heaven Lake at the peak of Mt.

Less populous Southern States were allowed to count three-fifths of all non-free, non-Native American people toward population counts and allocations.

The three-fifths ratio, or " Federal ratio ", had a major effect on pre-Civil War political affairs due to the disproportionate representation of slaveholding states relative to voters.

It established the " federal ratio " which counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of both representation in Congress and the direct taxation of states.

It consists of 12 members, appointed by the King, 4 of which are proposed by the Congress of Deputies by three-fifths of its members, 4 of which are proposed by the Senate by three-fifths of its members as well, 2 proposed by the executive and 2 proposed by the General Council of the Judiciary.

It counts all residents for apportionment, overriding Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, which counted only three-fifths of each state's slave population.

After the Russo-Japanese War, Russia and Japan signed the Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905, which saw the southern part of the island below 50th parallel north reverting to Japan ; Russia retained the other three-fifths of the area.

The maintenance of a certain level of merchant shipping and of trade generally also facilitated a rapid increase in the size and quality of the Royal Navy, which eventually ( after the Anglo-Dutch Alliance of 1689 limited the Dutch navy to three-fifths of the size of the English one ) led to Britain becoming a global superpower until the mid-20th century.

The Byrd Rule allows Senators to raise points of order ( which can be waived only by a three-fifths majority of Senators, provisions that fail are colloquially referred to as " Byrd droppings ") against provisions in the reconciliation bills that are " extraneous ," where extraneous is defined in the rule according to one of six provisions.

After the Russo-Japanese War, Russia and Japan signed the Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905, which resulted in the southern part of the island below 50 ° N passing to Japan ; the Russians retained the other three-fifths of the area.

* James Wilson moved to Philadelphia in 1765 and became a lawyer ; he signed the Declaration of Independence and wrote or worked on many of the most difficult compromises in the U. S. Constitution, including the Three-Fifths Compromise, which defined slaves as three-fifths of a person for purposes of census-taking, number of members to be elected to U. S. House of Representatives, and government appropriations.

Bob Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies, compared this bill's fractional vote to the policy of the Three-Fifths Compromise, which gave slaves three-fifths representation in the early history of the U. S. Vasconcellos abandoned the bill after it fell one vote short in the final committee.

This practice does prevent a reader of the current constitution from being confused by encountering obsolete provisions which have since been changed and not reading on to the end of the document to establish that fact, which is sometimes done to the federal constitution by persons who wish to obscure its current provisions, such as those who assert that the document " even now refers to blacks as only three-fifths of a person ", a provision which has not applied since the American Civil War but is still in the text of the early part of the document, the amendment deleting this provision not being encountered until much later.

The Presidency Council had the right to veto legislation passed by the Council of Representatives which may have overrode the veto with a three-fifths supermajority.