NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee Republican falsely declared Tuesday that an 18th century policy designating a slave as three-fifths of a person was adopted for “the purpose of ending slavery," ...

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On September 17, 1787, delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia approved the Constitution for ratification by the states. Two-hundred and twenty-six years later, AEI’s Program on ...

Speaking to the Tennessee House of Representatives on Tuesday, State Representative Justin Lafferty became the latest politician to reveal how little many Americans, including those in positions of ...

A Tennessee Republican lawmaker wrongly suggested on Tuesday that the infamous three-fifths compromise was an effort by Northern states to curtail the power of Southern slave-owning states with the ...

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Lafferty (R) gave an impassioned speech on the state House floor Tuesday, saying the Three-Fifths Compromise was included in the Constitution "for the purpose of ending ...

Sanford Levinson is a professor at the University of Texas Law School and the author, most recently, of "Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance." Updated July 1, 2015, 6:33 PM ...

The venerable constitutional scholar Lawrence Tribe appeared on MSNBC recently to discuss the possible importance of what it means to be “natural born” in the current presidential race. MSNBC is ...

WASHINGTON — It’s a claim that has surfaced and been debunked before, but Republican lawmakers in recent days have given it new voice: the notion that the clause in the Constitution counting slaves as ...

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