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David Court's avatar

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.

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E2's avatar

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.

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