Posted on Jul 3, 2021
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Reason #2 for the study critical race theory | 3/5 of a person clause
Slavery and the Making of America . The Slave Experience: Legal Rights & Gov't | PBS
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It is a disgusting racist legacy, but also deserves clarification. The agreement was not that the founding fathers considered slaves to be 3/5 of a person. It was about giving political power to slave holding states even though much of its population could not vote, own land or run for public office.
The purpose was compromise in order to keep the states unified after the original Articles of Confederation failed
https://www.britannica.com/topic/three-fifths-compromise
The purpose was compromise in order to keep the states unified after the original Articles of Confederation failed
https://www.britannica.com/topic/three-fifths-compromise
Three-fifths compromise | Definition, Date, History, Significance, & Facts
Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between the delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
The 3/5 rule removed power from slave holding states. If the rule didn't exist, the slave holding states would have had far more votes in the house than the non slave holding states, and, of course, those seats would have been held by slave supporting reps.
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The United States didn't create slavery. Indeed, slavery existed long before whites began to organize in proto-civilizations. The Constitution didn't create slavery, nor did it memorialize it. Indeed, the 3/5 clause of the Constitution was the beginning of the end of slavery in America. It prevented the slave states from using their slave population to gain dominance in the House of Representatives thereby insuring that, one day when the culture was ready, slavery could be ended. These simple facts are in direct contravention to CRT
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A1C Chris Pointer
CPT Jack Durish - The 3/5 compromise actually gave southern states greater power because they could count each of their slaves and their children (let's keep in mind these people had no rights or representation) as 3/5 of a person. Much of the slave population was concentrated in the southern states and Enslaved black people were in much greater numbers and growing than freed black people. So your state may have 200 freed blacks but my state has 2,000 slaves so I now have more votes.
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CPT Jack Durish
A1C Chris Pointer - One last attempt and I'm done. The slave states wanted every slave counted, one for one. The 3/5 was a compromise that cost them seats in Congress. Done. Have a good life...
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CPT Jack Durish Seems like a shite compromise to me. “Ok. We’ll agree to allow you to keep slaves. And we’ll let those slaves count as extra votes too. Not as many votes as you’d like, but enough to make keeping slaves a huge political boon.” I fail to see how that, in any way, the beginning of the end. If anything it solidified an extra benefit for keeping slaves. Freeing them would then also cost them votes.
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
As always, CPT Jack Durish, you are ever a voice of reason amongst the ignorant cacophony of voices that seems to pervade all of social media these days.
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More BS from the insurrectionists. LMFAO. Reason #2 for critical race theory throws the whole thing in the shitter.
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