re: #13 3eff Jeff

It was also important because it was one way the south maintained power against the northern, more populous states if I remember correctly. Since they counted slaves as 3/5’s of a person when doing the census and figuring out representation the less populous south (that is population of citizens) used the slave count to their advantage when it came to nat’l government. Then again it’s been years since that lesson in history class and my CRS could be acting up.