> The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Is the complaint that we haven’t erased the slavery related stuff from the record?
What has this got to do with people being racist now?
A Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964.
Civil Rights Acts were also passed in 1866, 1871, 1875, 1957, 1960, 1968, and 1991.
But the passage of a Civil Rights Act is not, in and of itself, an indication of the end of systemic racism.
Systemic racism is rampant in every country I have lived in, the US included.
But you are changing the subject.
The question is about why it matters that it was once part of the constitution if it is no longer?
The Three-fifths Compromise was a compromise reached among state delegates during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. Delegates disputed whether and how slaves would be counted when determining a state's total population, as this number would determine a state's number of seats in the House of Representatives and how much it would pay in taxes. The compromise counted three out of every five slaves as people...
In the US Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is part of Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3: