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The American Constitution DENIES BLACKS CITIZENSHIP AND COUNTS THEM AS THREE FIFTHS OF A PERSON (586 hits)

The American Constitution DENIES BLACKS CITIZENSHIP AND COUNTS THEM AS THREE FIFTHS OF A PERSON

Most of the originators of the American constitution were slave owners, and none believed in racial equality for a minute, despite all the subsequent propaganda to the contrary. As with the Amerinds - who were regarded as a completely separate alien nation all to themselves, the writers of the American Constitution - George Washington and others - wrote specific provisions into the original American Constitution to deal with the Black population.

None of the writers of the American Constitution even contemplated Blacks being accorded citizenship or voting rights in the new republic. When the Constitution was drafted at the Constitutional Convention held from 25 May to 17 September 1787, the delegates agreed that the US Congress should be elected on the basis of the size of the population in the various states making up the union - that those states with the larger populations should have more seats than those with smaller populations.

However a dispute arose: as the majority of Blacks were in the Southern states, and were specifically excluded from having the vote, the White leaders from the Northern states argued that the Black population should not be counted for purposes of representation, saying that the number of seats held by Southern states in the lower house of the national legislature should be based solely on their White population.

The White leaders from the Southern states however argued that this method of apportioning seats did not recognize the wealth and importance of their states; they wanted slaves to be counted equally with the Whites - then known by the phrase "free people."

Finally a compromise was reached and written into the Constitution: each Black would be counted as three fifths of a person for purposes of counting the population of a state. Thus it was written into Article 1, Section two of the American Constitution that:

Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 12:26PM
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Right!

Let's be fair. The U.S. Constiution may contain some "birth defects" as President Obama called them. But it has also been a bulwark of strength for equality of opportunity for all minorities in this country.

As Clark says, the Fourteenth Amendment provides a broad definition of citizenship that overruled the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which held that blacks could not be citizens of the United States.

Its Equal Protection Clause requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people within its jurisdiction. This clause later became the basis for Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 1:00PM
Richard Kigel

Despite the efforts of groups like the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate Black voters and White Republicans, which was the political party of people who believed in progressive ideals, a unified nation and abolition of slavery. At last, there was assurance of federal support that meant that most Republican voters could both vote and rule in confidence. When an all-White mob attempted to take over the interracial government of New Orleans, President Ulysses S. Grant sent in federal troops to restore the elected mayor. However, after the close presidential election of Rutherford B. Hayes, he, in order to mollify the South, agreed to withdraw federal troops from New Orleans. He also overlooked voting-poll violence in the South that was occurring even after the 15th Amendment was passed. There were several attempts by the Republicans to pass laws assuring the rights of Black voters and to punish intimidators. It showed the unwillingness of a Congress under the Hayes administration to take any action at this time, bills that would require incidents of violence at polling places to be publicized were never passed. Without the restrictions, voting place violence against Blacks and Republicans increased, including instances of murder. Most of this was done without any interference by law enforcement, and sometimes with their cooperation.

By the 1890s, many Southern states had rigorous voter qualification laws, including literacy tests and poll taxes. Some states even made it difficult to find a place to register to vote; disenfranchisement continued. to deter certain groups of people from voting

Congress proposed the 15th Amendment on February 26, 1869
Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 2:39PM
DAVID JOHNSON

Anyone ever heard of America just voted to put the Teapary on our floor of Congress...that the governor of Arizoan who was in that office actually not elected by way of the vote , just got voted into this office with the idea that the Constitution on this matter is wrong...

did they just not read the whole Constutition as a pont of fact they must now teach us all that much of this is wrong especially things like...John Mccain was not born in Amrica but that is just fine but now when it comes to our president and, they are now going to set this right like Gleen Beck along with Dr. King's OWN NEICE had to go to Wasdhington, D.C. to correct this countryON how wrong Dr. King was...WELL TIS IS ONLY WHAT THE TEAPARTY IS TRYING TO DO...SVE THIS COUNTRY FORM OUR PRESIDENT...

WAKE UP AMERICA - THE PUBLIC HAS JUST VOTED FOR THIS IS WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET ACROSS TO US.LOL (SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA