I’m amazed from time to time of the, uhm, unique scholarship that can be found at FreeRepublic.
This is the second person, out of the dozens of historians and thousands of posters I’ve studied, who believes that the United States Constitution contained a secret snare which forced slavery upon a horrified citizenry.
EVERY historian and virtually every poster participating on WBTS threads knows that certain compromises were written into the constitution in order to placate slave states. But no one ever doubted that states that desired to be free had every right to do so. And similarly, every state that wished to embrace slavery had that right. At least until Scott v. Sanford when taney upturned the history of our very nation and declared that the wording of the Constitution compelled every state to endure slavery. Like it or not.
Either we were tricked by a diabolical monster who inserted language into the document - which was later revealed by the super-prescient taney, or the constitution held meaning that the Founders (and every historian since) recognized, but taney ignored.
I guess you learn something new everyday...
LOLs, rockrr!
Great put-down of the unique scholarship, BroJoeK!