The Truth About Slavery &
The Myth About The Three-Fifths Clause
We constantly hear Rev. Wright and Father Pfleger
lying to their congregations about the three-fifths clause in the US
Constitution, saying that it was put in to make slaves less than human
beings. In fact It was an anti-slavery
northerner, James Wilson of Pennsylvania, who proposed the three-fifths
compromise. The effect was to limit the South's political representation and
its ability to protect the institution of slavery.
The great black abolitionist Frederick Douglass
understood this. He called the three-fifths clause "a downright disability
laid upon the slaveholding states" which
deprived them of "two-fifths of their natural basis of representation."
The American Founders didn't much believe in "progress" if it meant movement
away from the timeless principles they enshrined in the Declaration of
Independence and Constitution.
Individual Rights, Taxation and the Proper Role of Government
Part - 2
How one thinks about taxes depends more fundamentally on how one thinks about
the nature and purpose of government which in turn depends on how one thinks
about the rights of individuals. Taxation is a social barometer measuring the
degree to which a society is prosperous or poor, free or enslaved, good or
evil.
These treasures include handwritten drafts of the Constitution, Tobias Lear's
touching account of George Washington's death, Thomas Jefferson's
trans-Atlantic counsel to James Madison during the Constitutional Convention,
and the behind-the-scenes letters detailing the Federalist v. Anti-Federalist
contest - often depicting discussions of amendments and rights as
cloak-and-dagger mini-dramas, testaments to the passionate commitment both
sides pledged to upholding the "Spirit of '76."
Opposing
Socialism
