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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Next Day Err" data-source="post: 5986163" data-attributes="member: 107379">What on earth are you talking about?The North did not insist on the Three-Fifths Compromise but reluctantly agreed to it as part of broader negotiations during the Constitutional Convention. The compromise was proposed primarily by Southern delegates, who wanted enslaved individuals to be fully counted in determining their states’ representation in Congress, even though these individuals had no voting rights. Northern states, where slavery was less prevalent, objected to this idea, arguing that enslaved people should not be counted at all for representation, since they were not treated as citizens.</blockquote>