The consequent disproportion of numbers of the slaveholding representation in the House of Representatives has secured the absolute control of the general policy of the government, and especially of the fiscal system, the revenues and expenditures of the nation.
Quincy highlights how slaveholding representation skews government policy and fiscal matters.
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