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Indiana Lt. Governor faces backlash after comments on Three-Fifths compromise
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1:09Now PlayingIndiana’s Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith is receiving backlash after he shared a controversial opinion about the Three-Fifths Compromise, on his X account. The compromise, which was included in the U.S constitution in 1787, counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for congressional representation.
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