What does "rendered moot" mean?

Question

Following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865), the three-fifths clause was rendered moot.

Answer 1

It was made "irrelevant."

The 3/5 clause was about representation in the House of Reps. Slaves only counted as "three-fifths" of a person for population purposes.

Since slavery was abolished, the three-fifths clause no longer means anything. It's a "moot" point - that is irrelevant.

Answer 2

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What does "rendered moot" mean?
Following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865), the three-fifths clause was rendered moot.

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Define Rendered

Answer 5

"Rendered moot", in this context, means "meaningless, irrelevant, without force, power or effect." So, in your reference to the U.S. Constitution, "the three-fifths clause was rendered moot" means that it no longer had any force at law as it was supplanted (replaced) by the Thirteenth Amendment (which caused, as a matter of law, each slave to be counted as a full citizen instead of only 3/5th of a citizen for purposes of the U.S. census). Thankfully, the combination of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments counted the slaves as people and citizens, in addition to counting their "value" in the census. Of course, it was another 100 years before civil rights came in even a small measure to the African American community.

Now, from a purely wordsmith point of view, "moot" doesn't mean what I wrote above, but "rendered moot" means as written. For the closest example of the several definitions of "moot", see #2 of the source provided below.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

"Made obsolete"

The 13th amendment, in a nutshell, gave full citizenship to former slaves. This automatically rendered the clause that slaves be counted as 3/5 of a person in censuses obsolete.

Answer 8

" rendered moot " means it no longer has any significance

Answer 9

I can not believe I just used that term in the question about the Western Movement above. LOL

I means no longer of importance. Made meaninless.

Answer 10

It means that the point now has no value. The clause is worthless and irrelevant.