History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2272 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Else the Fourteenth Did
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The idea
The amendment eliminated the three-fifths compromise, so formerly enslaved people counted fully toward representation for the first time.
In practice
House seats and electoral votes reduced for states denying adult male suffrage.
Where people slip
That penalty was never enforced. States that disenfranchised Black voters after eighteen seventy kept their full representation regardless.
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