13043138, The 3/5ths thing is my pet peeve. Posted by Teknontheou, Tue Jul-12-16 12:15 PM
The southern slaveholders wanted us to be counted as 5/5ths. The northern non-slaveholders had to pull that number down to 3/5ths so the southerners wouldn't have too much representation in Congress.
I wish people would stop getting the importance of that part of the Constitution backwards.
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