Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing View Post
Apart from black people who only count as 3/5ths of a white person according to the US constitution.
Which article and clause would I find that in if you would be so kind?


Also you didn't answer my question: phyletic gradualism or punctuated equilibrium? Thanks
Article I, Section 2 use to have a line that read, "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."

It did't specifically say "black men", but said if you were not a free person, nor Indian, you were 3/5 of a person.

It was later replaced by Section 2 of the 14th Amendment: "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed."