Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Three Part 2 of 13
“… In our approach to representation and We the People, would that help Gus?”
“Use the slave fraction.”
“Yes.”
“You’re saying,” Gus summed, “that we could use the three-fifths clause to understand free people.”
“Right.”
“How so?”
“Three-fifths implies sixty percent of something.”
“Sure does.”
“Of what?”
“That’s the fraction friction you keep at Reb.”
“The representation ratio Gus.”
“Which is?”
Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Fifths “Thirty Thousand.”
“So free people counted as 30,000.”
“Sort of.”
“How then?”
“The US Constitution says free people are to be represented at the rate of one Representative for every thirty Thousand people.”
“That’s what makes us a republic.”
“True.”
“So 100,000 slaves would have counted as 60,000 free people.”
“Yes.”
“That’s a big deal.”
Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Clause “It was the deal that held the Constitutional Convention together.”
“It made us Reb.”
“Sure did.”
“Hey?”
“What?”
“These plants,” paused Gus, “there appears to be something in them.”
“In the sunflowers?”
“Yeah.”
“Sure is.”
“What ya’ figure?”
“That balancer we mentioned.”
“Balance to what?”
“Us and Tory Crown.”
Next Up: 1 July and Part One of the 7/20 Participation Day preparations (a day scheduled for Wednesday the 20th of July).
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