Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Politics In General Where have all the conservatives gone?

This is another example of your ignorance pdx rick. It was the 3/5 compromise not the 5/8 compromise. That compromise was not made to get the Electoral College into our Constitution. That sad and unfortunate compromise was, very reluctantly, made in order to get our Constitution written and ratified. Before our Constitution was even thought of Virginia (the colony with the most slaves) wrote the Declaration of Rights, in 1775. It was written by George Mason, Robert Nicholas, the colonial treasurer, and James Madison, all three were slave owners yet they debated the issue of slavery. All three of them believed that slavery was a dying institution, they just didn't know how to kill it. George Mason who is consider the "Father of the Bill of Rights" said this about slavery.
"As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union." "The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."
That comment is an insult to and a lie about Conservatives.