... that 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 opinion, unfair to the states to the ... leave the federal territories as a "whites-only preserve", although another argument from Lincoln is that it threatened to limit opportunity of free white labor which was also delivered in his Coopers Union Speech. His thoughts on race did influence the expansion of slavery into the terr...

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