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[QUOTE]Originally posted by SeekingFreedom: [QB] [QUOTE]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... ..... 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.. [/QUOTE]It only seems that way to the unintiated, Glass. ;) The 3/5ths compromise was a [i]limit[/i] on slavery and slave states. It brought the Southern States onboard and gave the North time to grow and eventually vote slavery as illegal entirely. By the time the Civil War started, this 'eventual majority' had become a reality. The election of Abraham Lincoln, through Northern backing, and even with absolute Southern disapproval, showed that the North was going to run the national policy. Tarriffs on goods imported to the South (imposed by a congress lead by Northerners) and other issues contributed. The sectional interest division is what caused the war as much as the idividual issue of slavery. As for the Constitution being racisit\pro slavery? Frederick Douglas (far more qualified to answer than either of us) stated it thusly: [i]"Take the Constitution according to its plain reading," he challenged the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. "I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it." In fact, Douglass told the crowd gathered to hear his Independence Day address, "Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document." [/i] http://reason.com/archives/2006/10/01/a-glorious-liberty-document [/QB][/QUOTE]
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