Obviously this PhD candidate does not understand that the 3/5s ‘rule’ in the constitution was to limit the size of the slave holding states congressional seats, since the slaves could NOT vote or hold office. How much more power would the slave states have had in congress if the slaves were counted as ‘whole persons’ who did not have the vote and thus their number would have been used to perpetuate slavery longer than it actually was.
Beat my long-winded response by 39 seconds! :)
Precisely.