Posted on 08/29/2020 12:59:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
The liberal and black arguments have nothing to do with slavery. It is all about gibdmedats.
:)
They had no pizza in 1776. Barbaric!
That’s why we invaded :)
Well we were welcomed here . Don’t blame me :-)
The country was founded by the Federalist, which wanted a king ( lifetime and via hereditary means), a house of Lords (Senate) and house of Commons (Representatives), plus a system of U.S. courts that could overturn or even make unnecessary state courts. Sound familiar? They wanted a facsimile of the British government, just with the local money men running it (those that held western landgrants and those speculators in confederation money they had picked up at a heavily discounted rate and wanted the new government to pay in full).
It was the anti-federalists that fought for a small government, not Washington (who by the way was not much of a general from a strategic pov), not Madison, etc. Henry and Monroe are towards the top of that list.
In other words, money folks wanted big government that they controlled and got richer on.
Like it says in Ecclesiastes, ain’t nothing new under the sun.
I can only blame you (your ancestors that is) for not bringing Italian food to our shores earlier. lol
to supply the insatiable appetite for slaves in the Southern States.
you forgot Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
At the time the Constitution was signed Slavery was already illegal in the Northwest Territory. That Territory would eventually become Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota.
That was only a small part of it. The VAST majority of the slaves New England slave merchants sold went to the Carribean and South America. Something like only 5% of all slaves brought over from Africa went to the American colonies.
Why is it that nobody ever gets the Three Fifths Compromise right? This was a compromise during the Constitutional Convention made necessary by the desire of BOTH the Northern and Southern states to fully include slaves in the census counts, but for different purposes.
The Constitution lays out two purposes for the decennial census, only one of which still is applicable. In addition to the apportionment of members of the House that is still done today, the census was also used to determine the taxes levied upon each state. Taxes were required to be levied on states in proportion to state population.
The Southern states, as stated in the article, indeed wanted slaves counted in the census, but only for representation and not for taxation. The Northern states also wanted slaves counted, but for the opposite purpose — only for taxation, not for representation. The Three Fifths Compromise was implemented to allow slaves to be counted for both purposes, but only at three fifths of the actual number of slaves.
“the census was also used to determine the taxes levied upon each state. Taxes were required to be levied on states in proportion to state population.”
What taxes were levied upon the States by the Federal Government?
Remember this crap?
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