This letter serves as a rebuttal of one in which Lt. Gov. Beckwith was defended for his Three-Fifths Compromise remarks. The author claims the compromise was not to protect slavery, but to save the ...

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Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith explains in his stance in defense of the Three-Fifths Compromise in a social media video posted Thursday, April 24, 2025. (Screenshot from a video posted to the lieutenant ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Leaders from both the Statehouse and churches from across Indiana are continuing to call on Gov. Mike Braun to denounce controversial comments made by Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith. The ...

Indiana’s lieutenant governor is facing backlash from some of the state’s religious and civil rights leaders after he called the Three-Fifths Compromise, which counted each Black enslaved person as ...

I would like to respond to the person who wrote about keeping the Electoral College. The author stated that the Electoral College was created to protect states with smaller populations. These smaller ...

“Our Fathers in forming the Federal Constitution entered into a guilty compromise on the subject of Slavery, and heavily is that sin now visited upon their children.” The bracing opening line of ...

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s defense of the Three-Fifths Compromise — which he called “a great move” by the country’s founders toward ending slavery — has thrust the Republican official into the ...