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Mr.Soxes wrote: You had to be a landowner to vote so poor whites did not count either.
Granny says, "Dat's right...
... the more things change...
... the more dey remain the same."
It didn't fly worth a damn.
Thus the ends (union of northern and southern States) justified the means - a fiction that 3/5ths of the slave population had voter rights. In the end, the fundamental differences between the North and South still led to civil war. This attempt to justify a legal fiction as grounds to create a union had nothing but the agendas of the participants in mind. The war ended slavery. Had there not been war, slavery would have continued. There are no good guys in this scenario - only politicians and commercial interests.
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False. They were counted 3/5s for determining the number of Representatives sent to the House.3/5ths of the slave population had voter rights
False. That came later with ratification of the 13th Amendment.The war ended slavery
False. Automation was already making it uneconomical.slavery would have continued
False. The 3/5ths compromise was a fact.This attempt to justify a legal fiction
I think you miss the point that it was the North who wanted slaves counted 3/5ths, the South wanted them counted as whole persons. Again, for determining the number of Representatives sent to the House. It was, as said above, about power.
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Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
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