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[[Frederick Douglass]] argued that the Constitution is a ''Glorious Liberty Document'', which includes this compromise.<ref>[http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/ What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?], July 5, 1852, "Fellow-citizens! there is no matter in respect to which, the people of the North have allowed themselves to be so ruinously imposed upon, as that of the pro-slavery character of the Constitution. In that instrument I hold there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of the hateful thing; but, interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither. While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slave-holding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it."</ref>  Abraham Lincoln, likewise, made a defense of the [[Abraham Lincoln#Founding Fathers|Founding Fathers]] on the grounds that the Founders had little choice but compromise, otherwise one or more states could have been lost to the British so shortly after victory in the [[Revolutionary War]].

[[Frederick Douglass]] argued that the Constitution is a ''Glorious Liberty Document'', which includes this compromise.<ref>[http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/ What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?], July 5, 1852, "Fellow-citizens! there is no matter in respect to which, the people of the North have allowed themselves to be so ruinously imposed upon, as that of the pro-slavery character of the Constitution. In that instrument I hold there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of the hateful thing; but, interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither. While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slave-holding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it."</ref>  Abraham Lincoln, likewise, made a defense of the [[Abraham Lincoln#Founding Fathers|Founding Fathers]] on the grounds that the Founders had little choice but compromise, otherwise one or more states could have been lost to the British so shortly after victory in the [[Revolutionary War]].

Conversely, [[William Lloyd Garrison]] argued that the Constitution was a "covenant with death" in regard to slavery.<ref>[http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2000/winter/garrisons-constitution-1.html Garrison's Constitution], The Covenant with Death and How It Was Made</ref>  Other historians, such as Garry Wills, have argued that the Three-Fifths Compromise increased the power of the slave states.<ref>[http://www.hoover.org/research/slave-system-thomas-jefferson-and-slavery A SLAVE TO THE SYSTEM? Thomas Jefferson and Slavery], [[Hoover Institute]]</ref>

Conversely, [[William Lloyd Garrison]] argued that the Constitution was a "covenant with death" in regard to slavery.<ref>[https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2000/winter/garrisons-constitution-1.html Garrison's Constitution], The Covenant with Death and How It Was Made</ref>  Other historians, such as Garry Wills, have argued that the Three-Fifths Compromise increased the power of the slave states.<ref>[http://www.hoover.org/research/slave-system-thomas-jefferson-and-slavery A SLAVE TO THE SYSTEM? Thomas Jefferson and Slavery], [[Hoover Institute]]</ref>

==Impact before the Civil War==

==Impact before the Civil War==

==Repeal==

==Repeal==

The Three-Fifths Compromise was abolished by the [[Thirteenth Amendment]], as was slavery.  The [[Fourteenth Amendment]] clarified this, with Article I, Section 2 of the amendment stating that "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed."<ref>[http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html#14 AMENDMENT XIV]</ref>

The Three-Fifths Compromise was abolished by the [[Thirteenth Amendment]], as was slavery.  The [[Fourteenth Amendment]] clarified this, with Article I, Section 2 of the amendment stating that "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed."<ref>[https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html#14 AMENDMENT XIV]</ref>

==Legacy==

==Legacy==