Vastly incorrect. By counting slaves as only 3/5ths in the census, especially given that slaves couldn't vote, it undermined the federal power the slaves states had relative to the states with less slaves. If the slaves had been counted as 1 person each, the slaves states would have had more representatives in the US House and more electoral votes for president.
Exactly! The 3/5 compromise was nothing but an affirmation of the humanity of slaves. The 13th states had to find a way to come together. Individually there was no way they could face the greatest superpower on earth. The 3/5 compromise pointedly told the southern states that they could not simultaneously count them as population to increase their number of congressmen, Without giving them full civil rights. The way it’s taught in school now is criminal.
Oh yes. The clause was an incentive, never adopted, to choose something like indentured servitude under which every person would be counted for representation.
I agree. That is a point Grok got incorrect.
“If the slaves had been counted as 1 person each, the slaves states would have had more representatives in the US House and more electoral votes for president.”
The South could have easily resolved that conundrum by extending voting rights to the human beings they were holding in bondage.
you are correct sir!
the 3/5ths clause was a win for the abolitionists
More to the point, it was a necessary evil bargain to form a country to preserve the rebellion. Had the colonies split - England would reconsidered us in parts.
The free people did not want telhe slave population to count at all. The slavers wanted the lm to count as 1. Because the slavers ie democrats cast their vote !
The battle has reignited with illegals !
Yep. The Three-Fifths Clause was an ANTI-slavery measure. The specific choice to make it 3/5ths was because that had been the taxation rate the slave states had insisted upon.
The 3/5th clause was taken over from the practice for calculating taxes under the Articles of Confederation. “Representatives and direct taxes...” because the calculation was that 3 free persons would accomplish as much work as 5 slaves.