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To: hanamizu

The 3/5 wording is not part of the 14th. Giving that that wording was an anti-slavery compromise, and the 13th outlawed slavery, it wouldn’t even make sense.


25 posted on 01/25/2024 12:24:18 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

I was basing my argument solely on Article 1, not the 14th Amendment, which basically mirrors the language of Article 1 but dropping the language of the 3/5ths compromise. And as you say, unlike some racial demagogues, the 3/5ths compromise was an anti-slavery measure.


27 posted on 01/25/2024 12:35:42 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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