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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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