LOL! No, it has everything to do with the Constitution. The Federal government used the moral issue of slavery to alter a legal document. Once altered, the document became inverted, and the original intent that the States relinquished only specific and limited powers to the newly created federal government was destroyed, as the Founders never intended the federal government to have direct interaction over any of the People.(The exception, of course, being those People inside the federal enclave.)
That a law limited to such objects as may be authorised by the constitution, would, under the true construction of this clause, be the suprerme law of the land; but a law not limited to those objects, or not made pursuant to the constitution, would not be the supreme law of the land, but an act of usurpation, and consequently void.
St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries
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The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
The Federalist No. 35, James Madison
Once unleashed, the power created to operate in ONLY certain areas began to operate in ALL areas, and became supreme over the very entities that created it....which is contrary to the original intent.
Do you believe the Constitution is a 'living document'?
Read my quote more carefully. I wrote “is seen” to indicate a general perception and not a legal reading of history. You can argue that “perception” of history is flawed and the only true view of history is via through documentation. However, I would argue that both readings are correct and that America’s “mythology” (our image of ourselves and our history) is also important.