Do they not teach the rationale behind the 3/5ths compromise in high school history anymore? https://twitter.com/cliffschecter/status/978963213382504448 …
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2/ Small non-slave states said "why should you get extra power just bc you own slaves?" Slave states said "take it or we walk" Compromise was hammered out: Representation in House of Reps was calculated neither as "equal" nor as "proportional to total population", but instead
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3/ as "proportional to a number formed by taking 1 point per free citizen and 0.6 points per slave". It was a pure pragmatic compromise to split power between, say, Massachusetts and Virginia in a way both could deal with.
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You dope. He wasn't asking. He was trying to lay a trap to argue about it. Jeez, you're like a twitter n00b.
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that's not clear to me
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