Slavery was the “original sin” of the founders, for which a later generation had to pay a horrible price. It was a violation of the founding principle of the country, not a cornerstone. Read Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address, read the facts about the views of those who signed the Declaration and the Constitution and you’ll understand what I’m talking about.
Lincoln brought the country back to first principles.
I agree with EV that: slavery was the opposite of what the Founders based our nation on.
They just wanted to believe that “Negroes” were not fully entitled because somehow they didn’t count the same as light skinned, more educated and well-off people. They wanted to believe they were somehow only meant for manual labor at someone else’s command.
Notice I said they WANTED to believe that.
The same is true with abortion and whether life begins at conception.
Of course a lot of people want to believe that life doesn’t begin at conception. Of course they do. You bet your bottom dollar they do. How convenient for...them. Their mothers and/or fathers didn’t abort THEM. But if it’s convenient for THEM, now that they have a life to live, they choose against all evidence and truth and common sense, to believe babies in the womb are not entitled to live.
I don’t give their “choice” to believe THAT any more credibility than I give the Founders choice to believe “Negroes” weren’t the same as whites and could be enslaved with impunity.