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In reply to the discussion: Can Someone Become President With 24% Of The Popular Vote? [View all]Foamfollower
(1,097 posts)No matter how they cut it when the original states set up the constitution, the Northern states would collectively have more voting power to choose the president, thus the 3/5 compromise reducing African Americans to 60% of a person. This alone was not enough, thus the electoral college where even teeny tiny states had at least three electoral college votes and a bicameral legislative body where each individual state had as much influence in half of Congress as every other state.
These two institutions, the Senate and the Electoral College, are both the final vestiges of that abominable instution within our federal government, and really little has changed because with voter suppression in so many states, one must agree that the collective voting power of African Americans per capita are approximately 60% of the collective voting power of European Americans per capita as single blocs.