Delegates from Southern states demanded that the Framers of the Constitution agree to the Three-Fifths Compromise, which stipulated that

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(Choice A) Three-fifths of the enslaved population of a state would be counted toward a state's population, thereby boosting the power of slave states in the House of Representatives

(Choice B) Only three-fifths of slave states would have votes in the House of Representatives until those states agreed to outlaw the institution of slavery

(Choice C) Three-fifths of the proposed amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, would be passed in order to maintain states' rights