Thoughts on Winnowill's 3/5s
Taken from Wikipedia. . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3/5_compromise
"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.
The three-fifths compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution:
“ 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."
In the first paragraph quoted, the North it seems wanted to count only the people who could vote the whites, but get the taxations from all applicable sources. It seems, to me, that the South wanted to count everyone, white and negro (please, I'm using the phrase in a historical connotation). But that the South did not want to have to pay the taxes that would have been applied to the slaves at the time.
So, this seems that the North wanted to be able to count only those who could be counted, against using the 3/5 Negro, yet collect the money from it in order to bolster the coffers of the Northern aims and goals. The South wanted to get as many representatives that they could, without having to increase the amount of taxes that would be collected.
By the North, less representation with taxation. By the South, More representation with less taxation. That alone seems to be a bit of a convoluted precipice to follow. Indiana Jones had more luck in finding the Holy Grail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3/5_compromise
"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.
The three-fifths compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution:
“ 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."
In the first paragraph quoted, the North it seems wanted to count only the people who could vote the whites, but get the taxations from all applicable sources. It seems, to me, that the South wanted to count everyone, white and negro (please, I'm using the phrase in a historical connotation). But that the South did not want to have to pay the taxes that would have been applied to the slaves at the time.
So, this seems that the North wanted to be able to count only those who could be counted, against using the 3/5 Negro, yet collect the money from it in order to bolster the coffers of the Northern aims and goals. The South wanted to get as many representatives that they could, without having to increase the amount of taxes that would be collected.
By the North, less representation with taxation. By the South, More representation with less taxation. That alone seems to be a bit of a convoluted precipice to follow. Indiana Jones had more luck in finding the Holy Grail.