That's been the system for over 200 years and Americans have never changed it, even though it only exists as it does to keep slaveowning states in the union and

That's been the system for over 200 years and Americans have never changed it, even though it only exists as it does to keep slaveowning states in the union and prevent a civil war (which it failed to do.) If it isn't democracy now, it's never been democracy.