That's the way (from our perspective) the (un)(Fair Founding Fathers wanted it: Slaves were 3/5ths of a man and women, even with the last three letters, did not rate anywhere on that, or the voting, chart.
That's the way (from our perspective) the (un)(Fair Founding Fathers wanted it: Slaves were 3/5ths of a man and women, even with the last three letters, did not rate anywhere on that, or the voting, chart.
Women (and children) were always counted as whole persons in the apportionment calculus where the three-fifths bit resided. Apportionment is about residents, not voters or even citizens.
That's the way (from our perspective) the (un)(Fair Founding Fathers wanted it: Slaves were 3/5ths of a man and women, even with the last three letters, did not rate anywhere on that, or the voting, chart.
Women (and children) were always counted as whole persons in the apportionment calculus where the three-fifths bit resided. Apportionment is about residents, not voters or even citizens.