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To: MNDude

Yep...slave masters pushed for each slave being fully represented, but without the ability to vote. If a slave master had 100 slaves, then, his one vote was like 100. The 3/5 law actually kept the South from stacking the deck.

Gun control had its roots in racism, too. A slave with a gun is not a slave for long.


40 posted on 08/19/2011 11:12:29 PM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO)
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To: scott7278

Wow! I never knew about the gun control part.


53 posted on 08/20/2011 8:16:17 AM PDT by MNDude (so that's what they meant by Carter's second term)
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