I'm sure that is the way the story is told in public schools but it's wrong. The smaller states didn't want to be ruled by larger more populated states. The founders knew this and they knew the smaller states which were mostly located in the south would not vote to ratify if they didn't do something to get them on board. So they came up with a brilliant idea...the electoral college. Not sure where you got the slavery stuff but it's wrong. Slavery and indentured servitude was widely practiced in the days of the signing of the constitution. Slavery had nothing to do with the electoral college.
Virginia was the biggest beneficiary of the electoral college system. It was also the biggest state.
I don't think they can grasp their head around this.
Virginia, as you say, was the largest state, with a total population of 747,550 - of which 39% were slaves - North Carolina (395,005) was third - of which 26% were slaves.
Again, for those who missed it:
So, you're say that reducing the slave population by 2/5 in determining seats in Congress for slave states was was to HELP(?) those states? The slaves states were counting slaves as a whole person prior to the 3/5 Compromise!
You must have not done well in math to not know that 3/5 is less than 1.
One purpose in the 3/5 Compromise was to reduce the slaves states population, thereby allowing fewer seats in Congress, with the end result of giving them LESS power!
It was BAD for the states, GOOD for the country, and was a step toward abolishing slavery.
And that is a fact, like it or not.
Edit: Sorry, paperview, but from your post I can't tell if you are agreeing or disagreeing with cabineer. But, regardless, this is still applicable to the thread topic.
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So, you're say that reducing the slave population by 2/5 in determining seats in Congress for slave states was was to HELP(?) those states? The slaves states were counting slaves as a whole person prior to the 3/5 Compromise!
You must have not done well in math to not know that 3/5 is less than 1."
Holy ****, are you messed up.
No, idiot, they were not counting slaves as a whole in the US Census prior to the Constitution, which embedded the 3/5 compromise.
Your lack of history and logic skills are in total disrepair.
Whatever. But a few facts sill remain.
The 3/5 Compromise was not racist. It was a step towards abolishing slavery, and minimizing slave state power in Congress.
The Electoral College Compromise was not to strengthen slave state powers in a Presidential election. It was to give smaller states, as a group, to have an equal (?) voice to that of the more populous slave states. Without the Electoral College it may have taken decades longer for slavery to be abolished because, as the Founders believed, the Southern states would continuously elect pro-slavery Presidents.
Derelict, this is why arguing with them is useless! Did I misread the OP author of this thread, and did he NOT insist basically, that the EC was created out of racism? And now, after the LOGICAL people show......and prove..........that this compromise actually helped foster in much more quickly, the abolition of slavery, and that without the compromise there would be no United States, the OP narrative still remains with a shrug from the author and his supporters.
There is no doubt within a day or 2, another lefty, who knows better no less, will start another thread using a different combination of words to profess the same misinformation. They can't win or even make a case, unless they lie! They NEVER want to talk about their policy, they want to talk about racism. Why? Because it is their astro turfing BUZZWORD! In reality, THEY are the racists! They are the party who has had black America in their camp since LBJ; and yet, they can't create any jobs for them. Why is that?
I will tell you why, and they can throw me off this site if they want----------->because Democrats refuse to reinvigorate the inner cities where most poor, black Americans are. They don't want the inner cities revitalized to much, because if that happens, when taxes go up because of Democratic policies, black Americans won't like it either. Go tell a worker his taxes are going up, or he may lose his job because of government policy, and you know what happens? Donald Trump, carrying more black votes than either Romney or Mcain did, along with union votes. They need to keep poor, black, Americans.....on their LIBERAL PLANTATION! Black and Union voters a large part of why Donald Trump is the President elect! (by the way, are people aware of where this strategy came from? I am, and it was written in a book by Rick Santorum. Problem was, regular Republicans could NOT use the strategy as written because of ingrained political reasons. Trump could!)
In the end, all these astro turfers (look at how many posts they have) are doing the bidding of their DNC masters, using the same buzzwords, and tired by lines. They do not care one bit what America wants, or the constitution says. Their only focus is MONEY PER POST! In other words, kinda like Hillary Clinton, how much money she could make after she left office, if she promised to win the Presidency. They are ALL phony; or at least the largest % of them. It is also the reason their attacks are virtually duplicates. Their DNC masters give them the talking points, then turn them loose to try and persuade public opinion. Just consider-------->in the world according to them, Trump can do nothing right, and yet, he has yet to do anything in the governments name since he is still a private citizen until Jan 20th, lol. If this does not tell you how much their DNC masters have control over them, nothing will.........but I will give you this.......................................we come on here for fun, and to squash snowflakes like Carebear. They have to come on here to get paid, and they know when they are getting hosed in a debate, which is almost everytime, lol. They have no self worth, they will sell themselves for a couple of nickels, and isn't that how Hilly got herself in trouble? Is it any wonder THESE people support her so blindly, they are kindred spirits, money and ideology above all else, The United States of America, and the coming generations be damned!
