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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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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