that’s incorrect
Posted on: June 10, 2021 at 15:21:36 CT
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“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.”
In other words, three fifths of the total of all other persons (excluding Indians and those bound to service for a term of years). That does not mean a slave is 3/5 a person