Pierce Butler supported the Three-Fifths Compromise because it benefited Southern states by allowing them to count enslaved individuals as three-fifths of a person for representation and taxation purposes. This arrangement increased the political power of slaveholding states in Congress, which aligned with Butler's interests as a Southern politician. The compromise helped secure support for the Constitution among Southern delegates, solidifying the political influence of slave states in the early United States.
Pierce Butler, a delegate from South Carolina at the Constitutional Convention, favored the Constitution primarily because it provided a stronger federal government that could maintain order and protect the interests of slaveholding states. He believed that a unified national framework would enhance economic stability and promote the growth of commerce. Additionally, the Constitution's provisions, such as the Three-Fifths Compromise, catered to the political power and representation of slave states, aligning with Butler's interests as a plantation owner.
No- Pierce was not an abolitionist. He was not personally in favor of slavery, but considered the right to keep slaves as something that was part of the agreement that states made when they ratified the US Constitution. He agreed with people like John Adams and Benjamin Franklin who did not like slavery but accepted it as a compromise needed to form the union.
False. He promised to enforce it and he did. ( He said before he was president that he did not like it, but it was the law and was part of a carefully worked out compromise.)
Pierce was an avid fisherman.
actually he didn't like the great compromise and was outraged that any compromise was made.
he looked like chicken
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Yancy Butler goes by Fans like to call her simply: "YB".
no but britney c. is a cool name ! yes it is i like britney pierce its cute
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That Douglas didn't like that idea about the Missouri compromise