[American Constitutionalist]

" Would you agree to a proposal from California that all illegal immigrants in that state should be counted by the census for the purpose of determining Congressional delegations? "

First place, I do not equate the black slaves as the same as a illegal ( they can never be called Immigrants since they have came here by breaking our laws and coming here illegally ).... DEPORT THEM BACK !!
The only true immigrants are those who come here and go through the legal process of becoming American citizens....
The issue of slavery is and was a totally different matter, in the first place, they where brought here against their will and they had no choice in the matter, so, you can't equate the black slaves with the illegals who come here illegally...

[Drennan Whyte]

First place, I do not equate the black slaves as the same as a illegal...

Why not? An illegal immigrant is not a citizen and has no rights to representation in Congress. It would be foolish to count them for Congressional representation as a result. But a slave was not citizen, either. They had no access to the courts and no rights that a white man was bound to recognize, as that Southern jurist Roger Taney wrote in 1856. They were property, not people. So why should they have any expectation of Congressional representation, any more than an illegal immigrant should? The obvious answer is that they shouldn't, and the fact of the matter is that the intent of the Southern delegates at the Constitutional Convention was to give their white population an increased representation in Congress. Their slaves didn't need representation since it couldn't do them any good anyway.