... 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 North. In his famous speech at Peoria, Illinois, he states: "But in ... ascertaining the number of the people, for this purpose five slaves are counted as being equal to three whites. The slaves do not vote; they are only counted and so used, as to ... ...

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... competition faced by non-minority graduates, therefore ensuring that affirmative action-receiving graduates do not exhibit lower levels of competence? Well, given the huge excess of applicants compared to the number of jobs available to be filled, we should be able to expect employers to care about what qualifications students had going in, even though it makes no difference to who ... ...

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