⅗ths clause
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You often hear about the 3/5ths claus; "Blacks were only 3/5ths of a human being". But think this through.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2017-05-19 |
Facts[edit | edit source]
- Many that use 3/5ths claus in the Constitution to claim we are founded on slavery. They are getting it backwards, either by ignorance or malicious intent (dishonesty).
- We inherited Slavery from the British Empire and Spaniards and French before us. We had it from our founding, and we had to deal with it.
- If the South's population included slaves (5/5ths), then Slave States would have had MORE representation/influence and more reward for adding/breeding more slaves. They'd have much more influence, and it would be harder to eliminate slavery. So the North got a compromise that slaves only counted as 3/5ths of a person (for purposes of congressional representation) in order to reduce the influence of the South/Southern States would had in congress.
- If the Constitution didn't compromise, to weaken it, the South just would have created their own country and Slavery would have been strengthened.
- What the 3/5th claus shows is that we were trying to grow out away from Slavery, from our very founding, and how the founding fathers tried to diminished the influence of slavery on population based representation.
Context matters. This proves that far from approval of slavery, they were putting it on a track towards extinction and trying to wait it out. Those selling the other story often have an agenda, and it isn't getting the truth out there.
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