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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The constitution used to say that black folks only counted as 3/5 of white folks and that women couldn’t vote.  [/quote]

That’s not what the constitution says about black folks.  That’s what you’ve been told it says.  Educate yourself please. [/quote]

DP. It did say that enslaved folks only counted as 3/5 as a person. It's just that this was a compromise that favored slaveholding states. Enslaved folks should have counted as 0/5 of a person, for the purpose of apportionment in the House of Representatives, because they were considered property, not people.

Then, after Reconstruction was ended, black folks counted as 5/5 of a person, which still favored slaveholding states, which did not allow black folks to vote.

White women also counted as 5/5 of a person but could not vote.

In any case, there is no need to worship the founding fathers. [/quote]

Some reasons.  They didn’t get everything right or everything wrong. They DID provide for a means to make changes to the document. Shut up and change it. [/quote]

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