AND, after ratification the American Republic continued to improve itself. Between 1789 and prior to 1913, we fine tuned our constitution for the better.
1791. Ten Amendments which acknowledged some God-given and societal rights.
1865. An amendment that eliminated the British imposed institution of slavery.
1868. The 14th Amendment that reinforced personal and societal rights guaranteed in the Declaration and Bill of Rights.
1913 marked the formal invasion of progressivism into the apogee of the Enlightenment, our constitution.
Why is it so tough to sell freedom, the need to return to our republican roots?
don’t blame acceptance of slavery on the british... it could have been written out of the new constitution and wasn’t