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Hating the Three-Fifths: Loving the Compromise

Recently the President of Emory University, James Wagner, has been coming under intense fire for his statement that the Three-Fifths Compromise in our original Constitution was a shining example of how opposing political camps can come to agree on something. (You can read the original story here.) Before we can judge Wagner’s comments, it’s important […]

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