The Constitution was written for the nation it was expected to become.  The Constitution stopped the slave trade as of 1808 in expectation that slavery would slowly disappear.  It seemed a reasonable calculation at the time.  In 1790 the census revealed there were 682,000 slaves in the nation; 49,000 in the North and 633,000 in the South.  By 1860 … Continue reading AN EXPERIMENT IN SELF-GOVERNMENT – Part VI The Implications of Slavery →