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[QUOTE]Originally posted by glassman: [QB] [b]The smaller states were afraid that the more populous states (read slave owning states) would dictate national policy. Because of this, they demanded that they be given equal voting rights, which of course the larger states would have nothing to do with.[/b] LOL, i cannot beleive you opened this can of worms... our Founders decreed that a slave would count as 3/5ths of person for representatives even tho a slave was not considered a citizen or voter... the Abolition in England had already shown the way things were going... The three-fifths compromise, Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution: [i]“ Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.[/i] [b]The three-fifths ratio, or "Federal ratio" had a major effect on pre-Civil War political affairs due to the disproportionate representation of slaveholding states. For example, in 1793 slave states would have been apportioned 33 seats in the House of Representatives had the seats been assigned based on the free population; instead they were apportioned 47. In 1812, slaveholding states had 76 instead of the 59 they would have had; in 1833, 98 instead of 73. As a result, southerners dominated the Presidency, the Speakership of the House, and the Supreme Court in the period prior to the Civil War.[/b] more proof of how effed up the system you seem to think is so great really was... keep in mind that the electoral college was elected based on those numbers too.. that's how they controlled the presidency.. yeah, let's return to the good ole days dude... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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