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Hey Leftists, The Constitution's Three-Fifths Compromise Is NOT Anti-Black lidblog.com/three-fifths-c… via @yidwithlid

Wilson was one of the first justices of the Supreme Court. Confirmation by the Senate in those days was much easier as there were no Democrats to make false claims that he raped a girl in college.

The Federalist papers demonstrate the mindset of the founding fathers was against the continuation of slavery, but they believed that it could never be stopped abruptly. Therefore they would need to wean the horrible practice away from their Southern brethren.

For example in Federalist #38 Madison justified the constitutional provision allowing slave trading for 20 years because it was an improvement:
Is the importation of slaves permitted by the new Constitution for twenty years? By the old, it is permitted forever.

“I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it [slavery].”-George Washington

“[M]y opinion against it [slavery] has always been known… [N]ever in my life did I own a slave.”-John Adams

Slavery will always be a horrible chapter in American History, but the three-fifths compromise was not. It was not a measurement of human worth; it was an attempt to reduce the number of pro-slavery proponents in Congress.

By including only three-fifths of the total numbers of slaves into the congressional calculations, Southern states were actually being denied additional pro-slavery representatives in Congress and electoral votes for selecting the president.

Now if we could only count these extreme leftists as three-fifths of a person for census purposes.