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I wonder if DOW Chemical and P&G were backing the Federalists in the 1700s or not...
by DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
I wonder if DOW Chemical and P&G were backing the Federalists in the 1700s or not...
- bobthepanda 6y agoMaybe not corporations, but the wealthy were definitely kicking up a storm over British taxes and import restrictions, and then later driving a lot of the pro-slavery arguments.
- codezero 6y agoI think private banks were...
- jandrese 6y agoNo, but powerful slaveholding interests were a major factor in the design of our government. It's the reasons our voting system favors low-population states--because slaves only counted as 3/5 of a person and the slaveholders were worried this would mean less representation in government and the danger that owning slaves would be outlawed.
- coredog64 6y agoThe 3/5ths compromise was about giving less representation to slaveholder states, and was not a moral judgment on the value of slaves. Slaveholder states would have been perfectly happy for representation to be 1:1 for slaves vs. non-slaves.
- jandrese 6y agoRight, they had less representation so they needed to make up for the loss of power with the Electoral College system.
- quickthrowman 6y agoRight, the Electoral College and the Senate benefitted slaveholders by granting them more political power, not the 3/5ths compromise.