[trumandogz]

Slavery in America and throughout the world, for all of history is an abomination. However, what makes slavery in America a greater abomination is that the U.S. was the only nation with a Constitution and Bill of Rights which of course did not apply to people that were held as slaves.

It is this hypocrisy of the American system that makes it a greater embarrassment.

In many ways the U.S. was not a legitimate constitutional republic until after the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th Amendments were passed.

[Jeff Chandler]

In many ways the U.S. was not a legitimate constitutional republic until after the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th Amendments were passed.

The check was written; it just hadn't been cashed.

[kipita]

Slavery in America and throughout the world, for all of history is an abomination. However, what makes slavery in America a greater abomination is that the U.S. was the only nation with a Constitution and Bill of Rights which of course did not apply to people that were held as slaves. It is this hypocrisy of the American system that makes it a greater embarrassment.

True but it is a greater abomination for the Americans that most benefited from slavery in the past to still use it in current times. True Republicans (not ex-Dixiecrats) have been the force against slavery in the past, present and foreseeable future.

[ChiMark]

Embarrasement? 600,000 dead. was this in vain?
A rather convenient comment from a cushy computer keyboard.

The power of our constitution was the realization that slavery had to end to fulfill these human rights.

Our civil war was the only war in the scope of fighting for an idea , not land nor conquering another nation.

[antinomian]

In many ways the U.S. was not a legitimate constitutional republic until after the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th Amendments were passed.

I would argue that the 16th amendment effectively repealed the 13th. And that the incorporation doctrine applied to the 14th has effective ended any pretense of republicanism.