The Founding Fathers didn’t enshrine slavery into the Constitution. They avoided it and made it noticeably absent. They knew it was contradictory to the principles in the USC, but they also knew that if they tried to ban slavery, the USC would never have been ratified. So, they knowingly left that contradiction in there, to be sorted out at a later date, which they knew would happen, and hoped would not destroy the country.
I greatly admire the writing and thinking of Thomas Jefferson. I think Hamilton had some critical flaws of judgment based upon a greater trust in the benevolence of government
A terrible gamble, with horrific consequences. It should serve as a reminder that issues of paramount importance, no matter how divisive, should never be saddled upon future generations when they need to be dealt with at the present time.
Re: Hamilton and the Federalists, I don’t think that any of them would’ve been approving at the mass-scale bureaucracies we find ourselves ensnared in today. I’d think they’d believe in a modest-sized (as opposed to super-tiny) pro-active government, centralized only where necessary as it applied to issues of national importance. I believe they’d be quite horrified at the mess in DC.