[WikiEN-l] Three-fifths compromise (was: Bot for generating articles on cities in Israel)

Wed Sep 17 00:14:13 UTC 2003

--- Daniel Ehrenberg <littledanehren at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ...Even at the beginning of the US's history,
> African American slaves were counted in the US Census
> for purposes of the size of the electoral college,
> albeit only as 2/3 of a person. ...

Slaves (of any race) were counted as 3/5 of a free preson,
not 2/3, for the number of seats in the House of Representatives.
The seats of the Electoral College are the total seats in 
Congress - that is, 2 (senators) + the number of representatives.
So, yes, the 3/5 did effect electoral college representation,
but not directly.

Sorry for being picky, but our Civics test on that was last week.
(Hmm...WikiBooks module on the Constitution?)

Geoffrey

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