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.
The Three-Fifths Compromise gave the Southern states, which had a much smaller population of free people relative to the Northern states, outsize power on the national stage, allowing them to force compromises that preserved and extended slavery until the 13th Amendment outlawed the practice.