That's not exactly the point I was making. What I'm saying is that there was, at the time the Constitution was passed, a legal understanding of the word "person". I then noted that the Constitution contained a provision that enabled us to see how that definition was understood by the people who wrote it. By noting a requirement to count "Persons", and then seeing what the founding generation actually went out and counted, we can have a pretty good idea of what they considered that word to entail. I'm sorry if I came across to you the wrong way.