*This rule is often misinterpreted as illustrating how slaves were regarded as less than fully human. But that has nothing to do with the issue. Black people were indeed widely regarded as being inferior to white ones, but this particular measure was designed to reduce the power of slave-owning states compared to what it would have been if slaves had been counted like everyone else.

*It should of course be physicists.

*I am counting the Christian Democrat CDU and the regionally based CSU as being one party for present purposes.