is it just me or is the electoral college a survival of the land ownership franchise? with all those red maps reflecting exactly that?
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it was the proxy that allowed the 3/5 compromise. If they can’t vote, pop. vote doesn’t work.
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Right. By counting entire state as a single unit, EC boosted population of slave states by 60% of slave total.
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although I guess those are overlapping outcomes, since that's who owned slaves, after all: people in the rural south.
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