Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, Micah Beckwith, criticized state Senate Democrats for equating a republican legislative proposal aimed at eliminating initiatives for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in higher education to the commitment of three fifths.
“They were saying that this is a bad bill because it is real encourages discrimination, as well as the commitment of three fifths dates back to the foundations of our nation. I would like to share with you the three fifths,” Becrimin “,” Republican, in a video shared in X after an emotional debate. “It was not a pro discrimination or a commitment to drive slaves made by the founders. It was real opposite.”
“Do not buy Radical Dei’s revisionist history that is happening in current culture,” he said. “Know your story. Return and study documents. Read Themefel like me. Go to look for them and you will find that the three fifth commitments and many think thus designed to ensure that justice was the same for all people and equality.”
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Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith is seen presiding in the Senate on Thursday, April 24, 2025, door of the legislative session in the Capitol of the State of Indiana in Indianapolis. (Grace Holgars / Indiestar / USA Today Network through IMAGN images)
The legislation in question, bill 289 of the Senate, finally approved the two of the state legislature last week and addresses the desk of the Republican governor Mike Braun. The Bill Restricts Dei Programs at K -12 Schools, Charter Schools, State Agencies, and public university and allows people to such institts if they compel students, teachers op administrators to adopt that one race, sex, othnicity, inherently, inherentlion, person’s moral character is Determined by One of Those Characteristics, Or That a Person Should Be Blamed for Actions Committed in The Past By OTher Members of The Same Race, Sex, Ethnicity, Religion, Original National Or National.
The “illegal discrimination” sponsored by the Republican Party, includes transparency requirements so that the institutes publish any training related to the DEI online and repeals provisions of concern The diversity of diversity, among other reforms. Follow an Executive Action Braun, a former American senator, issued when Tok Tok as governor in January prioritizing the merit of Dei in Education and State Government.
Last week, critics of the bill in the state Senate said that the proposal leaves out of consideration a legacy of discrimination in the US. UU., Citing the commitment of three fifths, the laws of Jim Crow and the real estate red line.
As for the commitment of three fifths, Beckwith said it was “a commitment that the North made with the South. At that time, there were basically 13 independent nations.”
“They had not really created a Constitution. They were a kind of nation in the style of the European Union, and they were telling the pro-sclavic states:” Hello, if you want to tell your slaves to have representation, more representation in Congress, “jumping to notice things like slavery in our nation and the north faced the south,” Beckwith said.

Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, Micah Beckwith, wears a Maye America Healthy Again hat on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, after Indiana’s governor Mike Braun, announced the Make Indiana Healthy Again initiative in the Indiana state library. (Mykal Mceldowney / Indistar / USA Today Network through IMAGN images)
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It made the duration of the constitutional convention of 1787, the commitment of the three fifths established that slaves would be counted as three fifths of a person when the population of a State for taxes and representation of the congress. Although it reduced the influence that initially the states that initially had slaves, finally allowed them more seats in the House of Representatives and more influences the presidential competitions in terms of the Electoral University that if the free people were alone.
The commitment of the three fifths ended after the civil war with the adoption of amendments 13 and 14, abolishing slavery and the equal protection establishment under the Constitution.
When the Constitution was written, Beckwith explained, the southern states considered slaves as property, but they still wanted to tell slaves as part of their population in the census to obtain more members of the South Congress. The North said that if the South wanted him to tell his “property” or his slaves, as entire people in the census, the North Wolde in turn told his tables, chairs and all his belongings in his homes as part of the prints for the headline.

Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith, on the right. (Grace Holgars / Indiestar / USA Today Network through IMAGN images)
“They come up with a commitment of three fifths. They said that he will only get three fifths of vote when it comes to his slave. And what he did, actually limited the number of representatives pro-sclavic in Congress for being eradicated in our nation,” Beckwith said. “They knew what they were. But now here you have Senate Democrats in the American Republic today who do not understand that.”
“They think that the commitment of the three fifths was something that was a scourge on blacks. That is not what it was. And how did we get to this place? We arrive at this due to the DEI in education. We arrive here to the teachers actors of the nation of the nation of the nation of the nation of the nation of the heels of Jape,” continue the foundations of the thoughts of the centrals of the theater of the nation. Beckwith. Beckwith. “Many, many men and leaders in the history of our nation knew how evil slavery was. They knew that God had created black people, white people, red people, all the people in their image, and were fighting for equality for all, but Tea Saught was clear. I was talking about talking about the three fifths.”
Beckwith said the commitment of three fifths was the beginning of the United States that then evolved to where all people can have the same representation under the law.
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The State Anti-Dei bill approved the State Chamber by a 64-26 vote and the State Senate for a 34-16 vote. Wait for Braun’s signature.