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Quote by: Milton Bradley  Being as he has been proven to have freed his slaves, and had personal relationships with them, what is there to suggest that was not part of the plan, and the intent all along? |
Huh? Lots of southern slave owners had illicit relationships with slavewomen. That didn't mean they considered them political or moral equals. And did you get the part about 3/5ths human--the compromise AGREED to by the Framers of our constitution? That shows "intent." But maybe in Ohio, 3/5 human does equal 1 human.
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Quote by: Milton Bradley I suspect that that is where opinions really diverge, as I see the actual words in the document, and attemt to hold the signers to those words, and you guys look for some hidden hypocrisy.
Conspiracy Theorists! |
Only two things changed "original intent" on the question of black constitutional rights--the Civil War and the 14th Amendment, and even then it took 100 years before federal troops and Supreme Court rulings IMPOSED those constitutional rights on segregated states and communities. Our nation spilled an ocean of blood righting the wrongs of the Framers' 3/5 human compromise.