The Three-Fifths Compromise
a. required that 60 percent of the states had to approve constitutional amendments.
b. addressed the proportion of native-born Americans who had to be in each congressional delegation.
c. stipulated how slaves would be counted when determining the number of representatives a state had.
d. designated the vote needed by Congress to override a presidential veto.
ANSWER: c
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