[donmeaker]

Lincoln said "The people who grow the corn should get to eat the corn". That statement got him the endorsement of Karl Marx, who was not a communist in the modern sense of the word, but rather an anti-capitalist.

The 3/5th rule was put in the constitution to penalize the states of slave holders, to encourage them to free their slaves to gain 40 percent additional representation. Alas, in this the Framers erred, not having forseen the cotton gin and the tremendous profits gained thereby. What they saw was, at that time, the marginal gain of owning slaves, and set against it a marginal loss of representation.

[Paul C. Jesup]

No the 3/5th rule was put in the constitution to weaken the political power of the South so that there would not be plantation voting block, like there is now in urban areas where politians harvest votes from the welfare whores.

[Paul C. Jesup]

No the 3/5th rule was put in the constitution to weaken the political power of the South so that there would not be plantation voting blocks, like there is now in urban areas where politians harvest votes from the welfare whores.