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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by jki275 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:12PM (#20790923)
Ok, since you don't like my phrasing, the argument from the slave states was that slaves should count, which would have given them greater representation.

My statements stand.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by dragonwriter on Sunday August 25, 2019 @10:34AM (#20793200)
> My statements stand.

No, they don't, because they assume the slave state argument wasn't just their argument but a privileged default position, such that giving them something that was a compromise between what they wanted and what the free states wanted was a harm to them from the privileged default and not an inducement to keep them in.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by jki275 on Monday August 26, 2019 @07:55AM (#20799052)
To be clear, there was no "privileged default", the "default" was that everyone counted. The 3/5 compromise was forced on the slave states to reduce their power from the default. It was not an "inducement", they were forced into it.
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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by jki275 on Sunday August 25, 2019 @08:33PM (#20796638)
That's what we call word salad.
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