Plus a lot of the fight was over how much *property* should affect political influence - the idea that a citizen needed to have a "stake" in society was something they broadly agreed on, it was a fight over whether that just meant a threshold for participation or should scale.
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That gets articulated in the active vs passive citizen distinction during the French revolution, but by then the debate had been settled in favor of "threshold."
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The fraction of the white population with the power to vote was significantly lower than the number of white people.pic.twitter.com/oBm9GPNxOp
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In the Continental Congress, Southern states had 38% of the seats. Because of the 3/5th Compromise, that shot it to 45% in the first Congress under the Constitution.
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