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> "So we ended up with a country that claimed that all men are created equal but did not actually adhere to this." > yet we did eventually fix it. So much for
by heywoodlh 4y ago
> "So we ended up with a country that claimed that all men are created equal but did not actually adhere to this."
> yet we did eventually fix it. So much for the unchangeability of US government.
As far as I understand, African Americans were still not considered equal in many states over 100 years after the very bloody Civil War to abolish slavery of African Americans. I don't consider this a good example of a highly changeable government. Or am I misunderstanding your point of the US "eventually fixing it"? 100 years is not a trivial amount of time in a country that is only a little over 200 years old.
- bavell 4y agoYou're confusing government with citizens. The letter of the law changed but the culture lagged behind.
- nkozyra 4y ago> You're confusing government with citizens. The letter of the law changed but the culture lagged behind. I don't they are. The law that abolished slavery changed, but racial segregation was - by definition - inequality. That it was postfixed "but equal" really underscored how hard they tried to dress it up. It was confirmed - by governments - in a number of cases, Plessy v. Ferguson being the canonical one.