Posted on 12/07/2016 11:52:56 AM PST by PROCON
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) held a forum Tuesday on the future of the Electoral College, which he claimed was “rooted in slavery.”
“We also must face up to the cold reality that the Electoral College is rooted in slavery,” Conyers said in his opening statement.
Conyers referenced a claim by one of the witnesses, Yale Law professor Akhil Amar, that “states opposed direct elections for the president, because in a direct election system, the North would outnumber the South, whose many slaves could not vote, but the Electoral College instead let each southern state count its slaves, although with a two-fifths discount, they counted for three-fifths of a person in computing its share of the overall count.”
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By that warped logic, the House of Representatives is also “rooted in slavery”. So when is he going to resign?
Says a lot about those who continue to vote for him.
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Slavery made her do it.
Every college/university has a course called Critical Theory which is exactly for that. How to criticize white/Christian/capitalism/America
Then if you really want to be an expert, you can take “studies”, African American studies, Women’s studies. Pretty much everything but heterosexual white guy studies.
It was that same USSC institution that John values so much to kill babies and create marital anarchy that decided blacks were only 3/5 a person. And of course if John is honest, he would admit that his very own party is the same party of slavery.
So yes, John must agree that they were only at least 3/5 human. Sounds hypocritical, does it not?
EV works fine and this election proved beyond any shadow of doubt as to why we can be grateful it is in place.
Conyers is one of those SIXholes who thinks everything he doesn’t like is “rooted in slavery.”
Middle paragraph above is from Wikipedia.
“All laws are racist, the law of gravity is racist” Some liberal politician.
blah blah blah
A god place to start would be Wayne State University in Detroit MI.
The Democrat Party is rooted in slavery.
Levin played the audio of this guy on yesterday’s show. Sounded like Conyers was under the influence or just showing his age. He has no business being in the Congress.
In related news, Conyers claimed that God has discriminated against reptiles because there are now less flying reptiles than birds. And it’s Trump’s fault.
Just another stupid and ignorant Democrat.
Whoa! The anti-Electoral College crowd is getting desperate now!
As the truism goes; “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” If these proponents are literate, I commend them to read “The Federalist Papers” and in particular #68 (attributed to Alexander Hamilton) as well as the “Big State/Small State” discussions from the ratification process.
In this case, for Rep. Conyer’s edification, Virginia was one of the Big States (population), along with Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York. So of the slave-holding states, only 1 of 4 was in that camp and then 5 (GA, SC, NC, MD and DE) in the Small State class. (Delaware was not locked in with the slave agriculture but it was still permitted and had a definite population of slaves.)
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