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Politics : Polite Political Discussion- is it Possible? An Experiment.
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To: KonKilo who wrote (540)8/4/2006 7:13:04 PM
From: Brumar89Read Replies (1) of 1695
 
Have you forgotten that they would not allow slaves to vote? Or that they considered them to be worth only three fifths of a "real citizen"?

That doesn't support the idea that the founding fathers thought slavery was a good idea.

Note they avoided using the words slave or slavery. BTW the 3/5 was for the benefit of the slave states. They got to count 3/5 of people not allowed to vote in apportioning representatives - which meant the slave areas got more representatives than if they'd only counted people able to vote.
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