“BTW the word “slavery” is not in the Constitution much less “enshrined” in it.”
Every school boy knows that the original constitution required a national census every ten years after the first census.
But did you know the word “census” does not appear in the original constitution?
And now you tell me slavery is not found in the original constitution.
Is that something you believe, or something you want me to believe?
A census is a requirement of a government. There is also no mention of an “Air Force” either, is it legitimate?
Show me the word.
I didn’t tell you that. Slavery did not need to be mentioned. It was an acknowledged fact of the time that slavery was a legal institution. The question of fair representation arose over how slave population should be counted.