Founding Documents: The Constitution
Civics 101
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The Legacy of the 3-5th Compromise
Five of the first seven presidents are slave owners from Virginia. Southern states found ways to disenfranchise their African-American population, while gaining even greater population numbers now that all people were fully counted. It allows southerners to establish a Democratic Party and to put in place things like the gag rule,. which means you can't talk about slavery or introduce petitions from northern states against slavery in Congress.
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