Re:The real prices of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini
by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:27PM
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I wonder if DOW Chemical and P&G were backing the Federalists in the 1700s or not...
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Re:The real prices of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini
by bobthepanda on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:29PM
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Maybe not corporations, but the wealthy were definitely kicking up a storm over British taxes and import restrictions, and then later driving a lot of the pro-slavery arguments.
Re:The real prices of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini
by codezero on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:41PM
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I think private banks were...
Re:The real prices of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini
by jandrese on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:51PM
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No, but powerful slaveholding interests were a major factor in the design of our government. It's the reasons our voting system favors low-population states--because slaves only counted as 3/5 of a person and the slaveholders were worried this would mean less representation in government and the danger that owning slaves would be outlawed.
Re:The real prices of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini
by coredog64 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @04:15PM
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The 3/5ths compromise was about giving less representation to slaveholder states, and was not a moral judgment on the value of slaves.
Slaveholder states would have been perfectly happy for representation to be 1:1 for slaves vs. non-slaves.
Re:The real prices of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini
by jandrese on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @04:57PM
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Right, they had less representation so they needed to make up for the loss of power with the Electoral College system.
Re:The real prices of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini
by quickthrowman on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:30PM
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Right, the Electoral College and the Senate benefitted slaveholders by granting them more political power, not the 3/5ths compromise.