WHO HEALTH REPORT Japan health systems ranked best (???)
Brad De Long
delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Thu Jun 22 11:54:03 PDT 2000
>Marta Russell wrote:
>
>>Blacks were considered three fifths of a person.
>
>That's a hideous statistic, but wasn't the effect of this to reduce
>Southern representation in Congress? I thought the masters wanted to
>count their slaves, but not let them vote.
>
>Doug
Yeah. And the North wanted representation to be based on the number
of *citizens*.
Both John and John Quincy Adams would have won reelection for
President had it not been for the 3/5 clause. This tended to make
them annoyed...
Brad DeLong
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