Sunday, March 24, 2019
The U.S. Constitution and Slavery :: USA, constitution, slavery, history,
The US constitution was written with great romance to create strong nation. The bill of right were written, it provide all military man with rights. The writers of the constitution we hypocrites, they didnt abide by what they preached. Thomas Jefferson wrote himself all work force are created equal unless he owned slaves. The founding convey didnt look or even think about slaveholding when they wrote the constitution. They were pre-occupied in getting the reciprocal ohmern state to join the union and compress the new constitution. They southern states believed that the federal g all overnment shouldnt mess with the come forth on slavery because slavery was a state issue. The south and the conglutination made numerous compromises to create a great nation. The first confirmative compromise was when the constitution didnt mention slavery in the constitution, they left over(p) that for the states to deal with. After years after when the congress decide to go bad the slave trade in 1808, they gave the south time to adjust to this but they new that by the time the slave trade died line was over the slave would have reproduces and they would have more slaves. Third compromise gave the south more power. They had notice that they had less seats in the house of representative. States with the almost slaves, for instance Virginia and Maryland, were get out number in the house of representative, so the compromised to have the slave counted as part of the population. They got three counts for every quintette slaves. This helped balance the house of representative.Later on, after President capital of Nebraska abolished slavery(the bakers dozen amendment in the constitution) the southern states decided to nullify his decision but the went against the constitution. override is illegal. This action cause the bloodiest civil war in America. President Lincoln notice that the US government was not follo followg what they were preaching. After the win in the civil war, the federal government had established themselves with a contend of power.
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