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University president: ‘Three-Fifths’ slavery agreement example of ‘pragmatic’ compromise
The president of Emory University, James Wagner has drawn criticism for using the Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787 as an example of what he called “pragmatic half-victories” in his latest column for the university’s magazine. “Some might suggest that the constitutional compromise reached for the lowest common denominator — for the…
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