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To: tapatio

They want the section about blacks being less than fully citizens read. Oh wow. It was removed by amendment.


7 posted on 01/06/2011 8:02:54 AM PST by Amityschild (STOP SPENDING FOOLS!)
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To: Amityschild

And even that 3/5ths compromise was actually about giving the “slave states” less influence in the government.


14 posted on 01/06/2011 8:04:01 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Amityschild

They don’t even understand why it was really inserted there in the first place.


15 posted on 01/06/2011 8:04:05 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
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To: Amityschild

Oh, next they want to read all past cases decided by the USSC, such as the Dred Scott case?

popcorn please


20 posted on 01/06/2011 8:05:30 AM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Amityschild
They want the section about blacks being less than fully citizens read. Oh wow. It was removed by amendment.

It was never there in the first place. There is nothing in the original that mentions black people, or that declares them to be 3/5 of a person.

45 posted on 01/06/2011 8:27:14 AM PST by Maceman (Obama -- he's as American as nasi goreng)
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