“Was it more pro-slavery than the US constitution? Not that I recall.
Three salient passages from the Confederate Constitution
“No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.”
“The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.”
“In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.”
I would venture a guess the Confederate Constitution was a tad more pro slavery than the U.S. Constitution.
“I would venture a guess the Confederate Constitution was a tad more pro slavery than the U.S. Constitution.”
The comment ‘just a little bit pregnant’ used to be a tawdry comment designed to highlight a person’s fundamental misunderstanding of - or inability to accept - reality.
The unspoken claim of virtue here - the United States Constitution was just a little bit pregnant with slavery - glosses over the fact that of the 13 original slave states, 13 of them voted to enshrine slavery into the U.S. Constitution.
More explicit, but not greatly different from what the US constitution and the common law indicated.
When the states ratified the Constitution, i'm pretty sure the slave states thought they were getting the things you mentioned in your message. Since they felt as if they were given a bait and switch, I think they wanted it spelled out clearly so that no one in the future would mistake the meaning.