Arguably, the votes of the states of New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware and Maryland to enshrine slavery into the U.S. constitution was the most embarrassing chapter.
Many of the people in these states - we are told - believed slavery was morally wrong but voted to include it in the U.S. constitution anyway because they concluded it was in their state's economic and political best interests.
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
The formation of the country was about the formation of the country.... Imagine that you and I wanted to form a corporation tomorrow. Would we start by talking about family medical leave? And then if we disagree on that decide that we weren’t going to form the new company at all? Thank God you weren’t around to cause chaos at the founding.