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Best quote of the Day ever: "Republicans seem to think Obama only gets 3/5ths of a term" (Original Post) Bucky Feb 2016 OP
Probably because intrepidity Feb 2016 #1
Three Fifth's Compromise Xipe Totec Feb 2016 #6
DUers wrote that on Saturday malaise Feb 2016 #2
didn't know. Thanks. I first saw that on Facebook Sunday morning Bucky Feb 2016 #4
I think there was a Facebook link malaise Feb 2016 #5
KnR Hekate Feb 2016 #3
k&r. nm rhett o rick Feb 2016 #7
Watch out: there are a few people here who will tell you how it's right and proper for the GOP alcibiades_mystery Feb 2016 #8
Aw jeeze, spare me the "DU McCarthyism" routine Bucky Feb 2016 #10
Wow. ReallyIAmAnOptimist Feb 2016 #9

intrepidity

(7,336 posts)
1. Probably because
Mon Feb 15, 2016, 07:18 PM
Feb 2016

George W. Bush took so many vacations that he probably only served about that much, so they think it's normal.

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)
6. Three Fifth's Compromise
Mon Feb 15, 2016, 07:38 PM
Feb 2016

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise reached between delegates from southern states and those from northern states during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. The debate was over whether, and if so, how, slaves would be counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxing purposes. The issue was important, as this population number would then be used to determine the number of seats that the state would have in the United States House of Representatives for the next ten years. The effect was to give the southern states a third more seats in Congress and a third more electoral votes than if slaves had been ignored (but fewer than if counts of slaves and free persons had been lumped together), allowing the slaveholder interests to largely dominate the government of the United States until 1865. The compromise was proposed by delegates James Wilson and Roger Sherman.


The Three-Fifths Compromise, is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution, which reads:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
8. Watch out: there are a few people here who will tell you how it's right and proper for the GOP
Mon Feb 15, 2016, 07:48 PM
Feb 2016

to obstruct.

They're being very "objective," doncha know.

The usual crew.

Bucky

(54,065 posts)
10. Aw jeeze, spare me the "DU McCarthyism" routine
Tue Feb 16, 2016, 09:33 AM
Feb 2016

No, there are not Redstate Spies lurking under the bed.

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