...all ages, including negroes and mulattoes") but was more likely to be counted using the 1 783 rule ("the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex and condition . . . and three-fifths of all other persons"). Only one thing was certain. These tax quotas would not...

...requisitions in proportion to the whole number of white & other free citizens & inhabitants of even' part of the judges who shall hear the" legislative or executive authority & three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not...

...in proportion to the whole number of white & other free Citizens and inhabitants of every age sex & condition including those bound to servitude for a...the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes."35 Wilson had just proposed what has come to be called the Three-Fifths Compromise; yet a very...