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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sure...as gerrymandering.

Libs who complain about the 3/5 Compromise often are ignorant of the fact that it was Northerners who proposed it - since blacks counted as people on par with whites would give the South some level of parity with the North.


19 posted on 08/24/2015 6:53:04 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

I wish i had a time machine so could send these schmucks back in time to convince the constitution convention to count slaves as a full person when aportioning seats in the house then return to current times to sbow them what a worse mess they made of history as they may very well still be slaves.


22 posted on 08/24/2015 6:59:19 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: kearnyirish2

“Libs who complain about the 3/5 Compromise often are ignorant of the fact that it was Northerners who proposed it - since blacks counted as people on par with whites would give the South some level of parity with the North.”

More “slave state” and “free state” than just N vs S. One goal of the Constitution was to put an end to slavery, which was mostly legacy British. Limiting Southern political power was part of the plan, as was setting a goal of 100 years so that estate ownership might age-out.

Most people, blacks especially, fail to see how 3/5 benefited blacks.


28 posted on 08/24/2015 7:06:15 PM PDT by DBrow
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