In pointing out that modern Republican voter suppression, continuing the de facto Jim Crow era enhancement of the infamous 3/5ths provision that added power to the slave owning class by stealing the rights to representation of slaves and transferring it to their enslavers, it occurs to me that today's voting suppression not only increases that fraction to 100% of the allegedly equal rights to representation transferred to the racists who suppress Black votes, it also extends that theft from other groups targeted by today's Republican voter suppression efforts, Latinos, other minority groups and the elderly and poor whites who are often excluded from exercising their right to vote through various vote suppression laws.
I think it's important to both admit that they are reviving one of the most disgusting and rightly hated parts of the original corrupt deal made in framing the Constitution in 1787, they are perfecting and extending the stealing and concentration of power into the pockets of the modern equivalent of the slave power.
In trying to think of how this could be overturned, I think that it is necessary to make any state's congressional representation contingent on the percentage of adult citizens who cast a vote in the previous election instead of the raw size of population of a state. If that were done then it would not be in the interest of any state to prevent or discourage voting by American citizens, on the contrary, it would be in the interest of the states to try to get as close to 100% voter participation as they could.
I will go into the discussion of the writers of the Constitution which is both complex and a pretty shocking eye-opener as to how far less than idealistic and moral those deliberations that produced the Constitution were. If you want to read them yourself, I would recommend you download Wendell Phillips' book as a pdf, and read it yourself.
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