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This excerpt from George Calvert's lecture notes discusses inclusion of enslaved persons in the census.
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- Ratio of representation; wherein of
- What is the ratio
- Reasons for introducing part of the slaves, wherein consider that
- Numbers is the best standard of wealth, the only standard of representations and slaves are not wholly property, but also persons
- Would have been [?] to include slaves for taxation, and not for representation
- The states where they are don’t admit them to vote, is no objection for that is referred exclusively to the states all of which exclude a portion of the population.
- Slaves as property should be represented—Difference [?] communities and [?] individuals I respect to influence
- Census made more correct by its being the common standard of taxes and representation
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