... the institution of slavery. Before tackling the slavery issue, one must understand Lincoln's political views with respect to the Constitution, which was the cause for Lincoln's idea of a gradual extinction of constitution and not an immediate emancipation, which separated him from abolitionists, and explained why he was a ... it could artificially inflate the power of the Democratic Party. The three-fifths clause of the Constitution allowed five slaves to account for three persons for purposes of determining the number of congressional seats in each state which seemed, in Lincoln's opin...

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