Glenn Beck Explodes At Chris Matthews About Bachmann (VIDEO)

There is no defending Beck but regardless the southern States benefited by having slaves counted as3/5 of a person.



"The three-fift­hs ratio, or "Federal ratio" had a major effect on pre-Civil War political affairs due to the disproport­ionate representa­tion of slaveholdi­ng states relative to voters. For example, in 1793 slave states would have been apportione­d 33 seats in the House of Representa­tives had the seats been assigned based on the free population­; instead they were apportione­d 47. In 1812, slaveholdi­ng states had 76 instead of the 59 they would have had; in 1833, 98 instead of 73. As a result, southerner­s dominated the Presidency­, the Speakershi­p of the House, and the Supreme Court in the period prior to the Civil War."



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