The slave states wanted equal representation in the Senate because they wanted to keep slavery.
The slave states wanted to have an Electoral College where the members that they had in Congress counted towards the vote of president, where the slaves counted as two-thirds, and in the popular vote they would count as zero.
Cohen obviously believes that, when the Constitution was ratified, slavery was limited to the southern states.
The decision to allow each state two senators regardless of size was an effort to ensure that the large population states like Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, and New York would not be able to undermine the will of the voters in low population states.
Another of Cohen's uninformed assertions goes thus: "The slave states wanted to have an Electoral College where the slaves counted as two-thirds." Here, he not only fails history but arithmetic as well.
The main reason the compromise is cited today is because, late in the convention, it was decided that each state's electoral vote allocation would match its congressional allocation.
As slavery opponent Gunning Bedford of Delaware had said so eloquently , the small states simply feared that they would be outvoted by the large states time and time again.
https://spectator.org/the-electoral-college-and-slavery-a-reality-check/
The slave states wanted to have an Electoral College where the members that they had in Congress counted towards the vote of president, where the slaves counted as two-thirds, and in the popular vote they would count as zero.
Cohen obviously believes that, when the Constitution was ratified, slavery was limited to the southern states.
The decision to allow each state two senators regardless of size was an effort to ensure that the large population states like Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, and New York would not be able to undermine the will of the voters in low population states.
Another of Cohen's uninformed assertions goes thus: "The slave states wanted to have an Electoral College where the slaves counted as two-thirds." Here, he not only fails history but arithmetic as well.
The main reason the compromise is cited today is because, late in the convention, it was decided that each state's electoral vote allocation would match its congressional allocation.
As slavery opponent Gunning Bedford of Delaware had said so eloquently , the small states simply feared that they would be outvoted by the large states time and time again.
https://spectator.org/the-electoral-college-and-slavery-a-reality-check/
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