[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "Here we see someone seeking to legitimize his views by citing his own inferences.
Some call this “circular reasoning” but renouncing reason is a better term."

Total nonsense, as usual for jeffersondem.
Nothing "circular" about my post, simply pointed out where and how I'd said "no" -- in post #107.

So my point remains valid and jeffersondem's is destroyed, because the Constitution nowhere "enshrined" slavery, just the opposite, slavery snuck in, unacknowledged through the back door.

[jeffersondem]

“Nothing “circular” about my post, simply pointed out where and how I’d said “no” — in post #107.”

Your use of repetition (e.g. slavery in the U.S. constitution is unacknowledged) brings to mind what one European socialist said sometime back:

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”