[dvwjr]

How is the "three-fifths" of a person a problem with the Constitution? The slave-holding South wanted all of its population - free and slave - to count towards the census so that the South's representation in the House of Representatives would be greater. It was the Northern states which had the "three-fifths" provision put into the Constitution to limit the power of the South.

What's wrong with the Electoral College? It is better than having the House pick the President as was originally proposed. No popular vote 'nationwide' mandate please, that would permit corrupt city political machines to generate nonexistent voters which would influence the results of a Presidential election instead of just the electoral votes of the State in which the city exists...


dvwjr

[youthgonewild]

The electoral college is undemocratic. So Republicans in Hawaii and Massachusetts deserve to be essentially disenfranchised in Presidential elections? Anyone thinking the electoral college is democratic is outright wrong, it's a sham that the Founding Fathers made because they thought people were too stupid to vote. Whether they are or not, they should get the chance. How ironic that a site called FreeRepublic would have so many people who oppose actual direct elections.

[youthgonewild]

How is the "three-fifths" of a person a problem with the Constitution? The slave-holding South wanted all of its population - free and slave - to count towards the census so that the South's representation in the House of Representatives would be greater. It was the Northern states which had the "three-fifths" provision put into the Constitution to limit the power of the South.

I may be wrong, but it looks like you're saying what the North did was unfair to the South, but I just may be misreading it.