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The Constitution Was Literally Written By Slaveowners. Why Is America Obsessed With Upholding It?
The Root ^ | June 28, 2022 | Candace McDuffie

Posted on 06/28/2022 6:10:13 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Last week, the Supreme Court eviscerated a woman’s right to abortion, undermined Miranda rights, expanded gun rights and allowed border patrol agents to operate with even further impunity. Today, it ruled that a former Washington state high school football coach can pray on the field immediately after games—regardless of the religious backgrounds of the students.

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To: cockroach_magoo
The Republican Party, on the other hand, was not founded by slave owners.

No, it appears that it was founded by religious kooks and corrupt businessmen.

According to her own logic, the author should be advocating in favor of Republicans and against Democrats.

Well, in March of 1861, The Republicans in congress voted to pass the Corwin Amendment, which would have made slavery permanent in the United States.

So i'm not sure anyone should be trusting them either.

101 posted on 06/28/2022 7:19:37 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
How is the constitution specifically against slaves or any race?

Fine, but, my last question is the one that matters more...

How is the constitution specifically against slaves or any race?

And, what part of the constitution codifies slave ownership? It would seem that, the writer of the op-ed/article thinks that, if someone owned slaves, that he/she would be automatically disqualified from writing any part of the constitution or any part of the bill of rights.
102 posted on 06/28/2022 7:20:17 AM PDT by adorno
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To: NorthMountain

lighten up francis.

hehehe

and they will be judged by history and the Lord.


103 posted on 06/28/2022 7:21:12 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: FLT-bird

But see, that takes work. Until recently they were content to work through the courts and let the judiciary rule and thereby issue de facto amendments without all the hassle of the traditional process. Now they see the judiciary turning so it’s The Constitution that must go.


104 posted on 06/28/2022 7:22:01 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: artichokegrower

At least they being honest about it now.

Amazing how many people cheered on the Kenyan from Indonesia and other potential usurpers wearing R jerseys.


105 posted on 06/28/2022 7:22:32 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: artichokegrower

It’s sad to say but this is what passes for journalism nowadays. The lack of critical thought is pitiful. Candace is a creature of public schooling. The chasm between Candace’s vomitus and the deliberations of the founders is incalculable. Have the marxists succeeded in the destruction of our republic?


106 posted on 06/28/2022 7:24:25 AM PDT by old school
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To: artichokegrower

The reason they were enslaved was basic inequality and weakness.

The constitution protects all, including those who are weak and unequal


107 posted on 06/28/2022 7:25:49 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro-Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: COBOL2Java

When there is a “Go Fund ME’ to send her to Senegal or Mogadishu-—let me know.

I can find $5 in my Social Security.


108 posted on 06/28/2022 7:26:46 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: COBOL2Java

GOD made her black.

No one else had anything to do with it.


109 posted on 06/28/2022 7:27:23 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: adorno
And, what part of the constitution codifies slave ownership?

What part of the constitution codifies murder or robbery?

Such things are "codefied" in state laws of the time, and the Constitution merely recognizes that such laws exist in individual states.

And clearly the constitution recognized slavery as legal when it was written.

It would seem that, the writer of the op-ed/article thinks that, if someone owned slaves, that he/she would be automatically disqualified from writing any part of the constitution or any part of the bill of rights.

She is an idiot.

110 posted on 06/28/2022 7:27:36 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: artichokegrower

Get rid of the constitution with 200 million gun owners? That’s beyond stupid. The 13th amendment would be nullified. I’m not a racist, but it would be open Season on blacks. The states again could do whatever they wanted including the registration of all blacks for deportation along with illegals.

Without the constitution, there is no rule of law, no congress, no courts. The everyday man could and would become a vigilante.


111 posted on 06/28/2022 7:30:09 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: COBOL2Java

Figures


112 posted on 06/28/2022 7:32:03 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: artichokegrower; Baldwin77; srmanuel; subterfuge; ConservativeMind; Flavious_Maximus; MHGinTN; ...
This is the letter I sent to papers and commentators every June now.

Juneteenth End of Slavery

Celebrating Juneteenth as the end of slavery also fulfills the aspirations of delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The founders could not abolish slavery but came closer than often believed. Slavery was retained, but the Constitution only provided to suspend Congressional initiatives until 1808. They expected it to vanish as a matter of moral obligation.

The philosophical doctrines consulted for founding this country already placed master and slave on the same natural plane of existence and only postponed the free exercise of conscience. It was reasonably believed planters would no longer be satisfied with luxuries, indolence, and cruelties, but aspire to the profit, energy, and incentives found in Northern methods of enterprise.

In reading James Madison’s notes, you find no defense of slavery, but two firm denunciations during debates that abhorred the institution. Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania said, “It was a nefarious institution. It was the curse of heaven on states where it prevailed. Compare Middle States where a rich and noble civilization marks prosperity and happiness with….great regions of slaves presenting a desert increasing in proportion to these retched beings”. George Mason of Virginia said, “This infernal traffic originated in the avarice of British merchants…. Slavery discourages arts and manufactures….Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant….They bring the judgement of heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this”.

As an economically dying institution when the Constitution was approved, it seemed a not intractable problem to settle.

113 posted on 06/28/2022 7:33:42 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: teeman8r
lighten up francis

Thanks! Yet another entry in my list of BS words and phrases.

114 posted on 06/28/2022 7:34:45 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Baldwin77

Marx

Groucho Marx

Long live Freedonia!


115 posted on 06/28/2022 7:36:30 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: DiogenesLamp
No, it appears that it was founded by religious kooks and corrupt businessmen.

It appears not. But I'd appreciate any references you can point to in support of your contention.

The Republicans in congress voted to pass the Corwin Amendment, which would have made slavery permanent in the United States.

The Corwin Amendment would not have made slavery permanent in the United States, any more than the Dobbs decision will make abortion permanent in the United States.

The Republicans (and anti-slavery Democrats) had to choose between the reality of secession, which would have done nothing to abolish slavery, and the Corwin Amendment, which also would have done nothing to abolish slavery but at least would have preserved the Union. What do you think the Republicans should have done in this situation?

116 posted on 06/28/2022 7:37:20 AM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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To: Bon of Babble

Men can still have pretend abortions.


117 posted on 06/28/2022 7:41:51 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: artichokegrower

1. Were there some members of the Continental Congress who owned slaves? Yes. Was that all or most of the members? No.

2. Were the positions on slavery universal among the members of the Continental Congress? No. There were some who wanted it to be illegal.

3. Was there a compromise position agreed on? Yes. The slave owning states were forced to accept that they would not get representation in Congress for 100% of their state’s population. To reduce their representation their slaves would only be counted as 2/3 a person. The result was the representtative impact of slave owning states was redouced, and over time, that lower represntation in Congress, along with other measures enacted by Congress over the years began to prove fatal to the continuation of slavery.

4. The south revolted when finally slavery was to be doomed by federal measures.

Given any unbiased reading of the words of the Constitution and the brief history I just outlined, it is slander to say “the Constitution was literally written by slave owners”. But we know why Leftists make such claims. Like Pol Pot they must destroy any society they want built on their terms.


118 posted on 06/28/2022 7:44:37 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: artichokegrower

You see now, why those on the Left want to tear down our institutions and our history. You can’t re-make something more appealing without painting the Founders as ugly and disconnected with modern thinking.


119 posted on 06/28/2022 7:44:50 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: NorthMountain

it’s from the movie stripes.

have a great day.


120 posted on 06/28/2022 7:45:44 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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