Yesterday on his radio show, a black caller to his radio show took issue with Glenn Beck’s frothy love for the nation’s founding fathers who, after all, viewed black people as less than human, or, as it read in the constitution, “3/5 of all other humans.” Beck then explained that the founders did this for the slaves’ own good before suggesting that the caller go read “a really good history book not written by progressives.” History! |Raw Story|
The Three-Fifths compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. It was proposed by delegates James Wilson and Roger Sherman.
Delegates opposed to slavery generally wished to count only the free inhabitants of each state. Delegates supportive of slavery, on the other hand, generally wanted to count slaves in their actual numbers. Since slaves could not vote, slaveholders would thus have the benefit of increased representation in the House and the Electoral College. The final compromise of counting "all other persons" as only three-fifths of their actual numbers reduced the power of the slave states relative to the original southern proposals, but increased it over the northern position.
We're supposed to believe someone who writes a blog and publishes an altered photograph right next to it, right.
Cute. Jackass.