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Steele Defends 3/5 Compromise

by Josh Marshall
05.10.10 | 12:05 pm

I always feel a little bad for Michael Steele since his job requires quite a lot of him. Now he’s slamming Elena Kagan for praising Thurgood Marshall when he said that the original constitution was ‘defective’ because of its embrace of slavery.

Really? Can’t we agree the whole constitutional embrace of slavery was a bit of a problem?

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