The amount of replies on the socials to anyone appalled at our UN ambassador’s claim about our founding that = “But the 3/5ths clause!” reveals the profound ignorance of our fellow citizens. For decades, our education system has taught what the best Chinese propagandists now say.
Slavery is mentioned three times in the Constitution. The 3/5ths clause and the limit on slave importation are both measures taken against slavery in the compromise that was made. The slave owners wanted slaves to count as 5/5ths to give themselves more power.
The worst of the Constitution is the fugitive slave clause. The other two mentions are anti-slavery, and reveal that the document was a compromise between those opposed to slavery and those for it—and was intended by all those opposed to put slavery on a path to extinction.
All this is so basic it hardly should need to be said at all. But our educational system has already succumbed to balkanizing agit-prop. “But the 3/5ths clause!” is just another sign of the depths to which we have fallen. And the heights we must climb to get out of this hole.
Read yer Lincoln: abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speech…
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