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Are you a fan of the US Constitution?

The document created by slaveowners who told us that all people are created equal... yeah, that's the one.
BlueVeins · 22-25
I think it has some good ideas, some not so much. I have trouble condemning it too harshly for the slavery thing considering the strained conditions under which it was written... although that might be giving the writers a bit too much credit, considering that many of them owned slaves despite their criticisms of it.
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
For the most part yes. The basic structure of checks and balances, three-separate, co-equal branches of government has generally worked well. I want two reforms however; First: nullify the electoral college and elect the president by popular vote. Two: Supreme court justices should have limited, not life-time terms.

Certain features were forced into the Constitution by the conflict between the slave-states and the free states. In 1791 the Federal republic was not in the position to take on the slave states in a military conflict.

By 1860, however, when the Civil War started, the Free states (the Union) had the industrial might to out-manufacture the slave-owning states, which were mainly agricultural and dependent on slave-labor. In 1865 the 13th Amendment was passed which outlawed slavery and allowed the newly freed slaves to join the Federal army and navy. Thus the newly liberated former slaves became liberators.
InkBot · 36-40, M
@badminton I would like to see people educated on the Constitution. It's too widely misunderstood.
hunkalove · 61-69, M
A bunch of rich white guys who didn't want to pay their taxes. Sound familiar?
InkBot · 36-40, M
@badminton I mean, the guy doesn't pay taxes (at least not here in the USA).
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@InkBot The very wealthy in this country have all kinds of tax-dodging schemes, like off-shore tax havens, to skip out of their tax obligation. And Trump is the biggest hog at the trough.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@hunkalove Without representation. It's not that they didn't want to pay them at all.
Pfuzylogic · M
I am pro #BLM and even with Thomas Jefferson”s faults he did write an essential document for our democracy. Now if the current guy in the WH wasn’t so seditious it would have a better chance at working.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
Well, white property owners, actually. Black people were counted for census and congressional representation purposes as 3/5 of a person.
cheesenpickles · 26-30, F
Forty of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence owned slaves. Under the Constitution, a slave was counted as three-fifths of a free person. Ten of the first 12 presidents owned slaves. This is who we were as the United States became a nation ... and some of us continue to live as if this was current day.
InkBot · 36-40, M
@cheesenpickles If immigrants really want the American experience, they need to come here illegally, kill all of us, and claim this country as their own.
Spokeskitties75 · 46-50, M
Listen, we all have our faults... 🙄
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
The second most important and individual empowering piece of legislation ever published, right behind the Magna Carta.
InkBot · 36-40, M
@AthrillatheHunt Actually, it's right behind the Kama Sutra.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
Niiice@InkBot
Northwest · M
You know, do as we say not as we do. It’s a solid good start that we should reform, but the last three Supremes are “traditionalists” so I don’t think this is going to happen soon.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
It’s a pretty good one, even if not perfect like some burgers pretend. But yes, quite hypocritical.
MiserableAtBest · 18-21, F
Do you think it’s too late to beg the UK to take us back? 😭😭😭
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