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It is worth noting that the particular bit of federal tyranny the constitution was designed to prevent was ensuring slavery never got abolished. It was the top
by jowiar 11y ago
It is worth noting that the particular bit of federal tyranny the constitution was designed to prevent was ensuring slavery never got abolished. It was the top priority for half the states ratifying it.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoThat's not too far off the survellience state. Americans want America to be the best in the world at everything, and that takes money and power. Slave owners had plenty of both. The reprehensible institution that it was, I cannot fathom a way our country could have grown so quickly and so successfully without coerced labor, and, for the native Americans, theft of land. We were in a lot of debt following the revolutionary war. It would have been crushing to pay back otherwise.