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.
At the founding, every state agreed to enshrine slavery in the U.S. Constitution. This included the historically slave states of New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Maryland.
Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia voted for slavery too.