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To: crz
Better get to the democrat message boards.

Nope bro, I think I'll stay. The lefties inability to comprehend history and politics is seemingly rivaled only by your own. They seem to have similar reading comprehension problems as well. The "3/5 of a person" canard is a leftist lie. You bought it, so you go hang with your DUmmie buddies and we adults will carry on the converstion.

But before you go, let me try to explain it simply, so that you might understand. The South wanted to count every slave in the population because they knew that would give them control of the House. The North needed the South in the Union and found it politically expedient to compromise and count only a portion, that being 3/5. Hence the name 3/5 Compromise.

In this way it is similar to the illegal alien issue whereby democrats want to count every illegal because it maximizes their political power while many Republicans of today find it expedient to compromise on the issue.

Dig?

144 posted on 08/12/2020 6:11:09 PM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: FroedrickVonFreepenstein

Go on BRO! Show us your infinite lack of knowledge.

DIG?


152 posted on 08/12/2020 6:19:17 PM PDT by crz
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To: FroedrickVonFreepenstein

Actually it was even a bit more complex than that, although you got the gist of it. The decennial enumeration of population called for by the Constitution served two purposes: apportionment of representatives in the House and imposition of taxes. Higher population meant more representation, but also higher taxation. The South and North both wanted to have it both ways regarding slaves. The South wanted slaves counted for representation purposes but not counted at all for taxation. The North wanted the reverse. The compromise was to include 3/5 of the s number of slaves in the census count for both taxation and representation.


154 posted on 08/12/2020 6:21:33 PM PDT by stremba
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