[dragonwriter]

> > while establishing slaves as 3/5 of a person for Congressional representation

> No argument against your point, but a similar Constitutional issue persists today:

Yes, a very similar issue does exist, but the one you are pointing to is not similar.

> Residents of Wyoming are established as 3.23 people for Congressional representation.

The unequal weighting of population for representation in (in descending order of distortion) the Senate, Electoral College, and House as a whole is not really similar to the awarding of extra weight to those who are permitted by the State to vote specifically for people denied liberty as was done in the 3/5 compromise.

The fact that those disenfranchised by felony disqualification are counted—and as whole persons, not 3/5—especially given the way targeted criminalization and penal servitude directly replaced chattel slavery, is, OTOH, a very similar issue.

[quesera]

I believe you're expanding on my footnote, and I agree.

In addition to felons (permanently disenfranchised in most states), you have temporarily-disenfranchised prisoners, and prison-based population distortions that favor some districts over others.

You could probably make an even greater comparison between the voting powers of:

  - a Californian living in a district with high noncitizen population
  - a Wyomingian living in a district with a large penitentiary

WY and CA already start at a 4:1 disparity.

[willcipriano]

I don't see how you can count a illegal immigrant who can't legally hold a job or have a bank account as a free person either.