A New Three-Fifths Compromise?: The Census Act of 1790 & Prison-Based Gerrymandering

The early United States government disapproved of the British Parliament's "rotten boroughs," which failed to accurately count districts' populations (Diamond 2020). To differentiate themselves, the framers developed a more mathematical and representative method of measuring population: the census, and codified this practice in the United States Constitution's Article I, Section II (Diamond 2020). Every ten …