Subject: Re: Our Founding Fathers Said What?
The folks who pan the 3/5ths compromise should check their knowledge of history...and of the Founding Fathers. Because it's lacking.

Not necessarily. I object to it as well, from my 21st century perspective. And I more or less know the history. And the ramifications if that compromise wasn't made. It delayed hostilities about 80 years, but we still ended up shedding a lot of blood over it, and then the 3/5 rule was rescinded, and slavery was ended. If the compromise hadn't happened, likely the hostilities would have been almost immediate (~1790). The South would have formed their own system (as they ended up doing in the 1860s).