[Roscoe]

I'll lay pretty good odds that those dark-skinned fellas they were owning, didn't think too much of the founders' understanding of the constitution.

Slavery was a matter of state law. As you know, there are self-proclaimed libertarians on FR who advocate gutting the 13th Amendment and allowing the ownership of human beings.

[OWK]

Slavery was a matter of state law.

Nice dodge... but the US Constitution guaranteed the right to due process, and the right to free speech, and freedom of religion, and freedom from unreasonable search and siezure, and the right to keep and bear arms, and all manner of other protections for men.

Just not the black men the founders happened to own.

That would have been inconvenient.

Your earlier ridiculed another for suggesting that the founders may have often been untrue to the intent of the constitution. Sadly they were.... They were oftentimes hypocrites. You may attempt to rationalize otherwise, but that doesn't change the truth of it.

[dcwusmc]

NO ONE I have EVER seen post here has advocated that. Another LIE, of course. Now, I have restated the question (originally here) and you have YET to address it. Why is that? Was it the "chickensh!t" comment? Awww... did I hurt your feelings???? I thought, you know, you being a drug warrior and all, that you could TAKE it as well as dish it out. Was I WRONG????? Ohhhhh, deary me! Oh, the shame of it.