Local groups want an apology after Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith made comments defending the 1787 Three-Fifths Compromise, ...

The American nation under the US Constitution began with a compromise that, among other things, quelled the founding fathers’ ...

If I owe you a dollar, giving you 60 cents just won’t do. 60 cents is three-fifths of a dollar. It’s more than half; what’s ...

The Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis, a group founded as part of the Civil Rights Movement, is asking Gov. Mike Braun to ...

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is under fire from historians and officials after making controversial remarks praising the ...

Gov. Micah Beckwith. The comments, made on April 24 on Beckwith's X page, were about a 1787 deal tied to slavery. In that video, he called the Three-Fifths Compromise "a great move." The video came in ...

Gov. Mike Braun responded by saying "definitely wouldn't have used that characterization and I don't like it." ...

Micah Beckwith has done with his recent comments about the Three-Fifths Compromise. Beckwith claimed ... states after the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 — some of whom traveled alongside Black ...

The Three-Fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional ... Beckwith talked about the compromise as being “a great move” that ultimately helped ...

“This was a great move by the North to make sure that slavery would be eradicated in our nation,” Beckwith said in the video. Indiana Democrats “think a Three-Fifths Compromise was something that was ...

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a provision the Framers of the U.S. Constitution included in the document’s original text at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 which counted three-fifths of a ...