“Our Fathers in forming the Federal Constitution entered into a guilty compromise on the subject of Slavery, and heavily is that sin now visited upon their children.” The bracing opening line of ...

Micah Beckwith, now Indiana's lieutenant governor, speaks to a crowd on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in Greenwood. (Casey Smith/Indiana Capital Chronicle) Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s defense of the ...

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INDIANAPOLIS (WNDU) - Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is facing backlash over comments he made over the Three-Fifths Compromise, a 1787 deal tied to the history of slavery in the United States. The ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A coalition of clergy is asking for an apology from Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith for his recent comments about the Three-Fifths Compromise in the original United States Constitution. They ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana Senate Democrats on Monday said Gov. Mike Braun should publicly rebuke Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s recent comments on the Three-Fifths Compromise. Senate Democrats briefly ...

Thanks in part to our current contentious, partisan political climate, there have been calls for modifying or replacing the Constitution approved in 1787 at a convention in Philadelphia and ratified ...

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s defense of the Three-Fifths Compromise — which he called “a great move” by the country’s founders toward ending slavery — has thrust the Republican official into the ...

Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith explains in his stance in defense of the Three-Fifths Compromise in a social media video posted Thursday, April 24, 2025. (Screenshot from a video posted to the lieutenant ...

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s defense of the Three-Fifths Compromise – which he called “a great move” by the country’s founders toward ending slavery – has thrust the Republican official into the ...