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That is exactly correct. It was the slave states that wanted slaves fully counted, while the free states didn't want them to count at all. People who go off a
by Turing_Machine 4y ago
That is exactly correct.
It was the slave states that wanted slaves fully counted, while the free states didn't want them to count at all.
People who go off about "3/5 of a person" don't realize that doing that made the slave states weaker, not stronger.
- Kbelicius 4y ago> People who go off about "3/5 of a person" don't realize that doing that made the slave states weaker, not stronger. That would be true only if the slaves could vote. Since they could not it made those states stronger.