MSNBC's Capehart: Conservatives Could Reclassify Me As 3/5ths Of A Person!

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[Fai Mao]

The idiot does not know that the slave OWNERS wanted all slaves counted to gain control of congress.

[Jewbacca]

The slaver Democrats are the ones who wanted slaves counted in the census to gain political power.

He must be a descendant of overseers, giving aid to his masters for a few scraps.

[HYPOCRACY]

How about just a “subhuman”?

[Rockingham]

An excellent point that is too often ignored. Indeed, the slave states got full credit, so to speak, for purposes of apportionment for all free blacks, which made for an incentive for emancipation. Had slavery died out gradually and peacefully as was thought likely in that era, the 3/5ths clause would have become a dead letter within a generation.

Yet, as Madison's Notes indicate, there was some concern even in the federal convention that the 3/5ths clause was injurious in its phrasing as a contradiction to the equality of all men that the Declaration had endorsed in such ringing terms. In the end though, no better way was suggested to curb the power of the slave states, which was the whole reason for the provision.

[Rockingham]

An excellent point that is too often ignored. Indeed, the slave states got full credit, so to speak, for purposes of apportionment for all free blacks, which made for an incentive for emancipation. Had slavery died out gradually and peacefully as was thought likely in that era, the 3/5ths clause would have become a dead letter within a generation.

Yet, as Madison's Notes indicate, there was some concern even in the federal convention that the 3/5ths clause was injurious in its phrasing as a contradiction to the equality of all men that the Declaration had endorsed in such ringing terms. In the end though, no better way was suggested to curb the power of the slave states, which was the whole reason for the provision.

[Bob434]

We classify you as 100% liar and racebaiter John.

[wny]

3/5 of a brain maybe...

[AppyPappy]

Like the Democrats actually did?

[euram]

he’s already less than half a person so 3/5 would be an improvement.

[TnTnTn]

But not because of your color, rather because of your idiocy…

[wardaddy]

I always found the argument flawed given few women voted either
Why weren’t they 3/5th too?

[teeman8r]

3/5ths of a person was one of the first anti slavery sentiments expressed in our constitution. some folks do not understand that.

[wardaddy]

Women didn’t vote either

Should have made them just 1/5

Lol

[wardaddy]

Pelham

I’m kind of impressed at fair number of freepers know the truth as opposed to the south haters here who always blame southerners for this

[rlmorel]

Hahaha! Love it!

Although it sounds suspiciously like what most Leftist economists actually believe…:(

[Night Hides Not]

Such twitterpation...lol.

[anton]

They don’t teach American history anymore. too bad.

The Southern Democrats got them 3/5 of person but only for purposes of apportionment.

[dfwgator]

Exactly. Would they have preferred that the Slave states have even more power in Congress?

[bert]

At present there is no law. The law has been ewaponized to destroy all that is nor progressive.

It is the Progressives that must be destroyed, man, woman and child.

[anton]

Yea, they weren’t going to let them vote, hell no. Republicans, for the most part, wanted them freed. We should have shipped them all back to Sierra Leone or Liberia or whatnot.