11-06-2020, 11:46 AM
(11-06-2020, 11:30 AM)michaelsean Wrote: I think you are referring to the 3/5 compromise.
Can someone educate me on that by the way. My entire life I was taught that the 3/5 compromise was anti-slavery. Or at least anti-southern states. The southern states wanted them counted as whole persons, and the northern states wanted them not counted at all. Was this teaching wrong, because everyone talks about it like it was a bad thing.
It wasn't really anti-slavery. The whole reason behind it was to not give slave-holding states more outsized power in the government. Since slaves, which were property, couldn't vote the non-slave states did not want them counted for apportionment.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
