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Definition of Fifths
1. fifth [n] - See also: fifth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fifths
Literary usage of Fifths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery by Lysander Spooner (1860)
"WHY ALIENS ARE COUNTED AS "THREE fifths." THERE are both justice and reason in
a partial representation, and a partial taxation, of aliens. ..."
2. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"If, in two consecutive fifths, the first is diminished, the prohibition still
... Two successive fifths are extremely harsh. Two octaves give a feeling of ..."
3. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, House of representatives, United States, Congress (1921)
"... a majority of all the Senators elected voting in favor thereof, and three-fifths
being present, as follows: FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE Ordered, That the Clerk ..."
4. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, United States Congress. Senate (1915)
"... and three-fifths being present, as follows: FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE. Ordered, That
the Clerk return said bill to the Assembly, with a message that the ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"... and it appears affirmatively that "two-fifths of the poll tax payers (as shown
by the tax receiver s digest last made out)" signed the petition, ..."
6. History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States of America by George Bancroft (1884)
"... will never confederate on terms that uot rate their blacks at least as three
fifths." \ Johnson, the negro slave to be a man, and nothing less than a ..."
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