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Politics : Polite Political Discussion- is it Possible? An Experiment. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KonKilo who wrote (540)	8/4/2006 7:13:04 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.