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You might want to understand how we got here. States never should’ve been allowed to count 3/5 of their slaves who couldn’t vote of course, for electoral purpos
by alwillis 6y ago
You might want to understand how we got here. States never should’ve been allowed to count 3/5 of their slaves who couldn’t vote of course, for electoral purposes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise
- latortuga 6y agoThank you for saying something notably absent from the rest of this thread. The EC was invented because of racism, period.
- onecommentman 6y agoA more thorough, and probably more nuanced and balanced, discussion at https://www.history.com/news/electoral-college-founding-fathers-constitutional-convention https://www.history.com/news/electoral-college-founding-fath...