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The Left’s Favorite Tool to Attack Our Founding Principles

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” George Mason said, “The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. ”

Northern delegates to the convention, and others who opposed slavery, wanted to count only free people of each state to determine representation in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College. That would have given slave states greater representation in the House and the Electoral College. The compromise was for slaves to be counted as three-fifths of a person when deciding representation in the House of Representatives and Electoral College.

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