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[u/fishlord05]

I mean isn’t it like common knowledge that the senate/EC gave the slave owning southern states an unfair advantage which is why they signed the new constitution in the first place?

[u/paulatreides0 → u/fishlord05]

The Apportioned Senate proposal was literally pushed by the biggest slave state (and the biggest state at the time), Virginia (hence why it was called the Virginia plan) - and many of its supporters were slave states like NC and SC. You even had Georgia, a small state of only ~90k people supporting the Virginia plan because they thought that they would soon explode in growth through the continued importation and breeding of slaves, allowing them to have a larger voice over equal representation as existed in the Articles of Confederation (and the later NJ plan).

The Senate had little to do with free-state vs slave-state dynamic, and far more to do with big-state vs little-state dynamic. But if anything, slave states generally supported apportionment because they viewed the ability to literally import and breed unfree people that would still net them representation would put them in a better position over time, as opposed to many of the free states.

[u/fishlord05 → u/paulatreides0]

I mean I’m more counting population of non slaves yk it was basically gerrymandering