• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    “all other persons” are counted as “three-fifths” of a person

    Also “all other persons” could not vote. Wonder what “all other persons” could possibly mean. A Dwarf?

    oh, wait doesn’t that mean… oh…

    💀

    (it means enslaved people btw)

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        7 days ago

        Specifically calculated to limit the exploit of population cramming the American South could do with slaves. The South wanted them to be counted as full people (only for the purposes of determining representatives).