I would challenge the premise of this question. The meaning of âdotardâ does not change according to individual whim. The other answers given so far are spot on, but it has nothing to do with what it means âto themâ. I would say even that the usual pressures on the English language for words to shift meaning over time are not acting on this word nearly as strongly, since it seems to be out of common use these days.
There are several reasons why the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise involved so much debate and discussion, but mainly because slavery was so contested and nobody wanted the government to have too much power. Comments.
What is the difference between our comprehensive constitution, or legal constitution, our written constitution, and our nominal constitution (... The three-fifths compromise states that every slave can be counted as 3/5 of a person and therefore can have 3/5 of a vote in elections. Of course, in reality, the votes are casted by their master and the slaves really have no voting power at all.