[Celtman]

there is no text about slaves or colored/coloured in the US Constitution.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

Article I, Section II

The phrase, "other Persons," of course, refers to slaves.  And these slaves, were, by strange coincidence, all of African descent (i.e., "colored".)

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Amendment XIII

[Blueflag]

Aware of both of those. My point was meant to be an exact one, not an ‘everyone knows what they are writing about’ one.

The original Constitution did not address slaves or ‘people of color’.

I was only picking (light-heartedly) on the poster, not arguing law.

thanks!

[the OlLine Rebel]

“except as a punishment for crime”

I reall like this phrase and wish more attention were paid to it.