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zipplewrath

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3. Never been this way, ever.

Reply to UTUSN (Reply #1)

Fri May 29, 2015, 03:04 PM

May 2015

The "original intent" strict constitutionalists are in a bind on this one. It's NEVER been this way. Heck, the whole point of the "3/5ths" rule was to water down the population of the states by under counting the slave population. And they couldn't vote. The only argument is that the 14th changed all that. But again, where are they going to find ANY support that such an intent existed when the 14th was passed? In 150 years or so, it has NEVER been this way.

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Never been this way, ever. zipplewrath May 2015 #3

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