To: Smokin' Joe
“SO while they did not resolve the issue except to leave the institution as it was, they did not impose it; it did not begin with them.”
In addition, the founders recognized that the issue of slavery must be eliminated at some time and they were able to incorporate the very tools to ammend the constitution. Had they insisted on eliminating slavery as part of the original union, then the union would have never occured. Without this union resulting in the United States, then there would not have been a United States that elminated slavery.
150 posted on
08/26/2013 6:45:05 AM PDT by
CSM
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To: CSM
The laws of the US maintained the state of slavery, imposing that state of servitude by force of law. To claim otherwise is to refute the clear historical record.
Just googgle USA slave laws Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 And of course the us constitution
“ No person held to service or labour in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due”
--- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was the law implementing and imposing the section of this constitution
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