Knowing so little of the political backroom games I wonder if this was a good thing. Was the civil war orchestrated for this end as well? I believe the states should have kept their sovereignty if the founders knew that once the poor vote themselves money, it’s all over. They probably knew more about history than our current politicians?
There is no Natural Right to own slaves. Had the states retained their claimed sovereignty that moral issue would fester from a dozen sores rather than from a region.
The difference between the Slave system and the Abolitionists was fundamentally a difference between moral views of the world.