They're being as irrational as those that insist that there must be some sort of apology.
If you look at the Constitution, the way Jefferson and co. sort of 'pussyfooted' around slavery is quite revealing that the issue was heavy topic of debate at that time. They made the [bad] decision. They should have outlawed slavery then and there, instead of postponing full legal debate until 1808.
Even pro-Confederate Southerners should agree with this. The slave states would be forced to either decide to abolish slavery or would have been able to not ratify the Constitution and join the Union. Thus, independent Southern states without the bloodshed of the War Between the States.
I see now.
The Virginian George Washington would NOT have been the first President of the United States of America because Virgina (the largest, most populated and richest of the States) would not have been able to join the Union. Nor any of the other Southern slave-holding States such as Maryland and Delaware. The Northern States of New York and New Jersey had slavery on the books until 1799 and 1804 respectively, well after the ratification of the US Constitution.
So we have the slave States at the time that the Constitution was under consideration by the several states:
Slave States:
Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York and Virginia. That makes eight states that had legal slavery on the books.
Free States:
Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island. That makes five States with no slavery.
Since the Constitution required that nine of the thirteen States ratifiy it to begin its authority, how would the Union have been formed in the first place if your strictures had been followed.?
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