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Not so. The 3/5 rule and the Electoral College gave slaveholders drastically more power than they should have had. If the president was elected strictly based
by TheCoelacanth 3y ago
Not so. The 3/5 rule and the Electoral College gave slaveholders drastically more power than they should have had.
If the president was elected strictly based on votes cast, the North would have dominated every election.
Not only did the South have completely disenfranchised slaves who nevertheless added to their masters electoral votes, but they also had much more limited franchise even for white males.
The constitution was set up to let the South prevent the vast majority of their people from voting without giving up much political power as a result.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoNeither of this North nor the South supported proportional representation based on both votes cast. Your assertion that the 3/5 compromise the South more electoral power begs the question in comparison to what alternative. If you're hypothetical is that became more power than the number of Voters, then sure. But no one at the time was advocating for proportional representation based on the number of men in the state. Nobody supported the vast majority of people voting. The Electoral College was never based on voter numbers.