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The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that determined how enslaved people would be counted for the purpose of determining a state's population and representation in the House of Representatives. Under the compromise, each enslaved person was counted as three-fifths of a person, which gave slaveholding states greater representation in the House of Representatives than they would have had if only free persons were counted. This compromise contributed to political tensions between the North and South and was eventually repealed by the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.