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I'm confused about the down votes here. What isn't true about this?

• gamblor956 9y ago
  Because the Constitution doesn't mention race. It merely states that a non-free individual was counted as 3/5 of a free individual for purposes of the population census, which was used to determine proportionate representation in Congress. Native Americans were excluded from the census entirely if they weren't tax paying residents of a state.
  • spraak 9y ago
    What was written vs what was implemented... in the context of that time, who else would have been a non-free person besides non-whites?