No, none of this.
3/5th clause written into the Constitution in 1787 to make sure that slaves
were counted for purposes of allocating representatives in Congress by adding
to the free population 3/5th of the slaves. Exampe, using simply numbers.
1) a states get 1 representative for every 100,000 people
2) state "A" has 1,000,000 free people, no slaves; gets 10 members of House
of Representatives and 2 senators.
3) state "B" has 500,000 free people (most but not all are white) and
500,000 slaves; that state, under the 3/5ht clause gets 8 members for of the
House and 2 senators.
4) if slaves were NOT counted for representation, states "B" would get only
5 seats in House of Representatives.
5) After Civil War state "B" would get 10 representatives in Congress
because there are no more slaves;
6) However, neither before nor after civil war are blacks allowed to vote in
state "B"
7) assume that 25% of the free population are voters (adult males).
8) In state "A" 250,000 people elect 10 representatives
9) In state "B", BEFORE 1861, 125,000 people elect 8 representatives; thus
votes in the South are more powerful than votes in the free states.
10) after Civil War 125,000 voteres in state "B" would elect 10
representatives.
11) the 14th Amendent, ratified in 1868, attempted to deal with this by
reducing representation in Congress if states denied the vote to white adult
males; this was ratified, but never implemented; thuss
12) from the late 19th century until the late 1960s, the South had far fewer
voters, because blacks were denied the ballot, but got full representative in
Congress for those black citizens.
I hope this helps.
Paul Finkelman
Diana Bennett wrote:
> One final question on the 3/5 Compromise... From the previous listings I
> gather that the 3/5 Compromise was adopted as the 14th Amendment to the
> U. S. Constitution when it was written in 1779-ish. Is this correct?
>
> Diana Bennett
>
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