RE: Dumb as a Fucking Rock
February 22, 2014 at 7:36 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2014 at 7:47 pm by Wyrd of Gawd.)
(February 21, 2014 at 1:26 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I don't know which is worse, the historical revisionism necessary to support this claim or the fact that that this guy has no problem claiming that the idea that a slave only counts as 3/5 a person is based on his religious principles.
Actually slaves didn't count as any percentage. They had zero rights. The South had a large slave population but a rather small white population in comparison to the North. So they allowed the Southerners to count their slaves in order to boost the number of their State Representatives in Congress.
Guys like DeLay may want to return to that system by eliminating voting rights for blacks but still count them as part of the populaton for House seats.
It always pay to understand what people are saying when they mouth off about returning to the past.
(February 21, 2014 at 9:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I wonder if fucking jesus wrote this part?
Quote:Clause 3. Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
That article was written so that the federal government would have its own source of revenue. Under the previous Articles of Confederation the federal government had to depend upon the States to give it money.
