Phil_Osophy
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Re: Colorado Judge: Bakery Owner discriminated against gay couple [W:123]
The three fifths thing had nothing to do with black people. It didnt even mention black people. The only racial group it mentioned were native americans. The democrats of the south twisted the words so that they could count their slaves.
Three-Fifths Compromise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. It was proposed by delegates James Wilson and Roger Sherman.
Delegates opposed to slavery generally wished to count only the free inhabitants of each state, but delegates supportive of slavery, on the other hand, generally wanted to count slaves in their actual numbers. Since slaves could not vote, slaveholders would thus have the benefit of increased representation in the House and the Electoral College. The final compromise of counting "all other persons" as only three-fifths of their actual numbers reduced the power of the slave states relative to the original proposals, but increased it over the northern position
The three fifths thing had nothing to do with black people. It didnt even mention black people. The only racial group it mentioned were native americans. The democrats of the south twisted the words so that they could count their slaves.