On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 11:07:45 -0400, Dan Espen
wrote:
It was eventually made illegal. It takes time to
legislate change and make it happen in a nation
that was in its infancy.

You seem intent on making excuses for the founding
fathers. It didn't just take time, it took a war 100
years later.

The finding fathers were just men. They didn't have super powers and
couldn't create a perfect world over night. That is just how it
was... So what's the beef with it taking 100 yrs? How would you
have done it differently?

I'm not really sure what you expected from the
founding fathers when they wrote the Constitution
and Bill of Rights.

I haven't said anything about what I expect.

You just implied that 100 yrs. and a war was to long. Did you mean
something else?

You seem to think I have a horse in this race. I've
merely tried to answer questions. It was the Bill of
Rights and the Constitution, and they quite purposely
created the laws of the land to allow slavery.

The Constitution set limits on the government. The legislature and
congress along with the citizens create the laws, not the
Constitution.

Some of them wanted to outlaw slavery, but self
interest won the day.

In your opinion...

It's not a question of what you or I want, it's what
happened.

A nation was being birthed.

When we first got to create laws to govern ourselves,
we made slavery legal, intentionally.

That's a sad part of every nations history, but we also intentionally
made a point of correcting that, too.

--
Maggie