[HiTech RedNeck]

All we care about is your adherence to America’s founding principles.

Our beloved Constitution, besides having some obvious bugs worked out such as black chattel slavery, has bequeathed us a two party oligarchy through the means it prescribes for electing presidents.

[EternalVigilance]

That’s a myth perpetrated by the duopoly in power. If the Republicans insist on being Liberal Party II I say let’s see how they do in a two-way race against Liberal Party I and a truly conservative party. I’ll take those odds.

[EternalVigilance]

By the way, political parties are mentioned nowhere in our Constitution, and George Washington strictly warned against the dangers of party factionalism in his Farewell Address.

[Moseley]

Our beloved Constitution, besides having some obvious bugs worked out such as black chattel slavery,

Our Constitution set up the best government in the world, but still has lots of defects, flaws and cracks. It beats whatever is 2nd by a country mile, but it still has lots of weak points in it (mostly where it is VAGUE and has allowed bad people to twist its meaning).

However, the Constitution did not establish, condone, or support slavery. The famous, but misunderstood, language about 3/5ths of a person actually guaranteed the eventual abolition of slavery. When assigning how many votes a State gets in Congress, slave-holding states got FEWER seats in Congress on account of the formula for counting the population of the State. Thus, the Constitution guaranteed that power would grow more in the free states than in the slave states. The balance of power tilted towards the free states. Seeing this happening, that is why the slave states seceded. They could see they were going to lose in the Congress. The balance of power was tilting away from the slave states and strongly in favor of the free states. That was "baked in" to our Constitution from day one. So the Constitution was rigged to destroy slavery (though no one had the power to do it all at once).