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'Attack on democracy': GOP senator slammed after invoking racist 'Three-fifths Compromise'
Alternet 15 Aug 2025
Constitution’s racist Three-Fifths Compromise—that mandated slaves be counted only as three-fifths of a person—to defend his claim that undocumented immigrants should not be counted at all in ...
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Three-Fifths Compromise protected slavery, contrary to Beckwith's view | Letters
IndyStar 20 May 2025
Beckwith was defended for his Three-Fifths Compromise remarks. The author claims the compromise was not to protect slavery, but to save the union. Hence, it would be "nonsense to claim the compromise was about protecting slavery.".
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In defense of Micah Beckwith's Three-Fifths Compromise remarks | Letters
IndyStar 15 May 2025
Micah Beckwith is lying about the Three-Fifths Compromise ... Without a compromise, there may not have been a United States, and slavery would still be around in the South today.
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