@keithzg @gemlog @nev @sollat It's all dirty tricks

"State congressional power (representatives) is limited by the population, and we don't want to give the slave states too much power so slaves are only 2/3 a person, and then we should make sure that we have our own stooges decide who really won the election in case the people have been compromised..."

A democracy founded on intense fear and distrust of its own people is how it seems to read sometimes