In rebuttal: Sidney Pew: Facts matter in Electoral College argument
Read Article A recent letter to the editor — “Support for Electoral College“, Robert Casimiro, Jan 29 — left out some important facts. We can all have opinions, but facts matter, and in his letter he does an injustice to the truth when he states there was no mention of slavery concerning the compromise that the Electoral College reached in 1787. A major factor of this deal was the three-fifths compromise, which was based on slavery. It counted three-fifths of each state’s slave population toward that state’s total population for the purpose of apportioning the House of Representa...