Richard Durbin actually said...

there is that awful reference to 'three-fifths of all other persons,' which though the document never mentions the word 'slavery' or 'slaves,' what was being spelled out here by the Founding Fathers was how are we going to count these slaves?

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Durbin critiques the Constitution's historical reference to slavery.

03/20/2022

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