11-06-2020, 02:13 PM
(11-06-2020, 11:51 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Yes I knew it was to keep their representative power down. I guess the reason may not be so gregarious. Or is it magnanimous?
Edit: OK I looked it up. Definitely not gregarious. Maybe i meant magnanimous the whole time.
Well, the first time I read your sentence ( pre-edit), I thought you meant egregious. You sure that's not what you meant the whole time? As in the 3/5 thing wasn't done egregiously (in this case under racist beliefs) so much as just a way to reduce representative power when a significant part of the counted population could not vote.
As someone that helped you once when you were looking for a word, I took the liberty of going to the well one more time. Perhaps I'm overreaching