You do realize that the 3/5 stuff is constitutional illiteracy? Slaveoowners wanted full count for slaves. https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/773491183393923072 …
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Replying to @instapundit
Do you believe it's accurate to say that our founders created a system that encouraged all voices to be heard?
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Replying to @JillFilipovic
Oh, come on. You're dodging now. 3/5 asn't about racial inferiority, but about division of power among states.
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Actually no, the point of my initial tweet was that it's not true that the founders created a system for all voices to be heard
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So what does 3/5 compromise have to do with that point?Anyway, that's temporal chauvinism, holding past to standard of today.
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no, lots of people then recognized "moral evil" when they saw it, by their own standard https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/quotations-slavery-and-emancipation-0 …
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yet it was enshrined anyway, so let's take that into account when celebrating the system that allowed it
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