three-fifths
Over half, barely
Three-fifths is a fraction equal to sixty percent, or 0.6.
As an adjective, it describes something proportioned accordingly: a three-fifths majority.
In American history, the three-fifths compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for congressional apportionment—a founding compromise that amplified slaveholding states' political power until the Civil War.
Proportion out of hundred
- proportionComparative relation of parts
- ratioComparative numerical relation
- decimalTenths-based notation
- majorityOver half of total
quotient · division · numerator · denominator · calculation · share · portion · part
Governing principles document
- slaveryOwnership of people
- representationDepiction or likeness
- censusOfficial population count
- apportionmentDivision into shares
Congress · 1787 · delegates · Philadelphia · Convention · enumeration · population · states
percentage
Proportion out of hundred
- proportionComparative relation of parts
- ratioComparative numerical relation
- decimalTenths-based notation
majority · quotient · division · numerator · denominator · calculation · share · portion · part · segment
Constitution
Governing principles document
- slaveryOwnership of people
- representationDepiction or likeness
- censusOfficial population count
apportionment · Congress · 1787 · delegates · Philadelphia · Convention · enumeration · population · states · electoral
three-fifthswhole
Full and undivided
entirety · totality · one hundred percent · two-fifths · complete
three-fifthssimple majority
Over half of votes cast
unanimous · two-thirds · minority · unanimity · supermajority
three, fifth, fifths, thrice, thirds, thirdly, thirteen, thirteenth, thirty