Slave owner states wanted a greater representation, thereby gaining a larger and superior representation in Congress.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith (R) said the compromise ultimately helped end slavery, while historians generally agree it reinforced the power of slave states.

I am responding to the letter published May 11 in IndyStar maintaining Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is lying about the ...

The Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis, a group founded as part of the Civil Rights Movement, is asking Gov. Mike Braun to condemn Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith 's statement that the Three-fifths Compromise ...

"What we have now is Black and white, diverse religious organizations and others standing, saying, ‘This is not what we want Indiana to be,'” said Rev. David W. Greene Sr., president of the Concerned ...

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith criticized state Senate Democrats for equating a GOP legislative proposal intended to root out diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education ...

to so forthrightly assess the founders’ flaws and to name the moral and political wreckage that the Three-Fifths Compromise facilitated. Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith, by contrast, recently ...

I’ll wait. No takers? The Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787 was a means of counting the population in southern slave-holding states, for the purposes of taxation and determining the number of ...

"They were saying this is a bad bill because it actually encourages discrimination, just like the Three-Fifths Compromise going all the way back to the foundations of our nation. I would like to ...

During contentious debates, lawmakers said S.B. 289 ignores the country’s legacy of racism and discrimination, citing the Three-Fifths Compromise as one example.