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" Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound... "
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans - Page 108
by Lydia Maria Child - 1833 - 232 pages
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Slavery and the Constitution

William Ingersoll Bowditch - Enslaved persons - 1849 - 182 pages
...was the reason of introducing the clause in the Constitution which directs that representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the States, according to their respective numbers." Page 178 : " The rule of apportionment is of this nature : it is radically wrong ; it cannot be supported...
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Friends' Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 2

1849 - 854 pages
...difficulty, was overcome by a compromise, which provided in the first place, that representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the States according to their respective numbers ; and that, in ascertaining the number of each, five slaves shall be estimated as three. In the next,...
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An Illuminated History of North America: From the Earliest Period to the ...

John Frost - Canada - 1854 - 738 pages
...Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three...
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The Constitutional Text-book: A Practical and Familiar Exposition of the ...

Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 342 pages
...States. Other parts of the Constitution provide for direct taxes. Art. I. sec. 2, clause 3, requires that direct taxes shall be apportioned among the States, according to their respective numbers as determined by the census ; and sec. 9, clause 4, of the same article, prohibits any capitation or...
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The Constitutional Text-book: A Practical and Familiar Exposition of the ...

Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 340 pages
...States. Other parts of the Constitution provide for direct taxes. Art. I. sec. 2, clause 3, requires that direct taxes shall be apportioned among the States, according to their respective numbers as determined by the census ; and sec. 9, clause 4, of the same article, prohibits any capitation or...
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A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United ...

Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 176 pages
...Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined, by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. " $ 9. The migration or importation of such persons...
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A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United ...

Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 172 pages
...Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined, by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. " § 9. The migration; or, importation of such...
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A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United ...

George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1856 - 320 pages
...the reason of introducing the clause in the Constitution •which directs that representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the states according to their respective numbers." See 8 Dallas' Reports, 177. nevertheless, it ought, I concede, to have been made. This latter principle...
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American Slavery and Colour

William Chambers - History - 1857 - 234 pages
...Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons.' By' all other persons' is signified slaves....
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The Constitution Text-book: a Practical and Familiar Exposition of the ...

Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1857 - 356 pages
...States. Other parts of the Constitution provide for direct taxes. Art. I. sec. 2, clause 3, requires that direct taxes shall be apportioned among the States, according to their respective numbers as determined by the census ; and sec. 9, clause 4, of the same article, prohibits any capitation or...
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