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To: Huck

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

take a gander: http://www.house.gov/house/Constitution/Constitution.html


7 posted on 06/09/2010 7:17:05 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: Blueflag
no text about slaves or colored/coloured in the US Constitution.

They don't use those words, but it's in there.

10 posted on 06/09/2010 7:22:46 AM PDT by Huck (Q: How can you tell a party is in the majority? A: They're complaining about the fillibuster.)
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To: Blueflag
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

25 posted on 06/09/2010 8:37:24 AM PDT by Celtman (It's never right to do wrong to do right.)
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