Booker: Founders Wrote ‘Bigotries’ Into the Constitution

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Booker: Founders Wrote ‘Bigotries’ Into the Constitution
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BY: Elizabeth Harrington   Follow @LizWFB
March 7, 2019 5:00 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker said the Founding Fathers wrote "bigotries" into the United States Constitution.

Speaking to NPR's Morning Edition, Booker called for "creating consensus," by leveling criticism at America's founding.

"The founders were imperfect geniuses," Booker said. "They wrote a lot of our bigotries into [the Constitution]."

"If you think about how we have overcome those things, it's always been by creating, first, calls to consciousness, speaking truth about the injustices, and then bringing together those uncommon coalitions," he said.

"We are a nation of conscience, and I found partners on the other side of the aisle who agree with me on these issues," Booker said. "And we can build from there."

It is unclear what "bigotries" Booker is specifically referencing. Request for comment was not immediately returned.

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[Cyber Liberty]

Booker's plan:  Introduce a whole new set of bigotries that benefit him.

[Sanguine]

That fella just ain't right.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I'm going to suppose he's talking about the slaves = a partial person. But that provision was actually to give the Southern States less political power, not more. If anything it was anti-bigot. Southern states wanted to claim their slaves as population in the census counts, which would give them more political power (for example, in the HoR and in the EC). This is of course, ridiculous.

[Sanguine]

I'm going to suppose he's talking about the slaves = a partial person. But that provision was actually to give the Southern States less political power, not more. If anything it was anti-bigot. Southern states wanted to claim their slaves as population in the census counts, which would give them more political power (for example, in the HoR and in the EC). This is of course, ridiculous.

Yes, but that wasn't written into the Constitution; that was done later by amendment.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Yes, but that wasn't written into the Constitution; that was done later by amendment.

Nope:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise

The Three-Fifths Compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, which reads:

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

[Sanguine]

Nope:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise

You're right of course.  I was thinking 14th Amendment.