Electoral College
— Designed to increase power of slaveholding states via 3/5ths clause
— Winner take all rules created, in part, to deny equal voice to Black voters
— In 1970, segregationist Senators filibuster popular reform
Do I detect a pattern?🤔
nytimes.com/2020/10/22/pod…
— Designed to increase power of slaveholding states via 3/5ths clause
— Winner take all rules created, in part, to deny equal voice to Black voters
— In 1970, segregationist Senators filibuster popular reform
Do I detect a pattern?🤔
nytimes.com/2020/10/22/pod…
“Thanks to 3/5ths clause, slave states got extra votes in House, just as in Electoral College.
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As a result, every president until Lincoln was either a Southerner or a Northerner who was willing (while president) to accommodate the slaveholding South.”
nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opi…
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As a result, every president until Lincoln was either a Southerner or a Northerner who was willing (while president) to accommodate the slaveholding South.”
nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opi…
“Under 3/5s compromise, 5 slaves were equal to 3 free people in order to increase the South’s representation in Congress. Thus, in electing the president, the political power southerners gained from owning slaves would be factored into electoral votes…” people.uncw.edu/lowery/pls101/…
Also, see this counterpoint that, to my reading, still makes strong case that the Electoral College “certainly gave the slaveholding states the advantage of the three-fifths clause.” nytimes.com/2019/04/04/opi… via @robertisnthere
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