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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
Last time I checked my vote counted as a whole man. Hummm 13th thru 15th Amendments. Yep they are my friends.
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My issue with 3/5 is that it's a "slap in the face" to black people. Sort'a like flying the "stars and bars". I'm glad it doesn't bother you. I'm pretty sure, were the situation reversed, it would bother
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The cotton gin and other technical advances would have eventually ended the economics of slave labor.
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Slavery was already in decline. Then the cotton gin made large scale cotton production feasible, which drove the demand for labor (especially "free" labor - I prefer to regard it as "stolen" but I'm one of those northern white liberals). Of course, that's just a theory, although it's not new with me. No way to prove a historical cause and effect.
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The electoral collage may seem somewhat undemocratic at first however; you should read the federalist papers see No 68.
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Yep. The situation has massively changed since then, however. It no longer takes weeks to get from one colony to another. Folks no longer owe their primary political allegiance to a state (state as in Massachusetts, not state as in this country). IMHO it was a check and balance that has since turned out to be more trouble than it might be worth.
Clearly it's not so much trouble that we have the political will to do something about it - even when a situation like the 2000 election happens - so my non-preference for it doesn't matter much at all...