Happy Birthday, America
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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The Three-Fifths Clause and the Civil War
As part of this compromise, to get the Constitution ratified, the founders had to countenance slavery. The people who most condemn the three-fifths clause often inadvertently take the slaveholder's side. "We've got to teach about slavery because our episode with slavery and with Jim Crow teaches people what the best version of America is," she says.
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