As with many of the Founders, especially the slaveholding Founders, Madison's record on slavery is uneven.https://twitter.com/TimothySandefur/status/1341074712210751490 …
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Virtually every other complaint about the document assumes it was written in a vacuum rather than as a replacement for a system with a weak federal government utterly incapable of action without the consent of the major states where slavery was long entrenched.
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I've explained before why it was significant for the abolition of slavery in the states that the original Constitution banned states from interfering with contracts, but not with property rightshttps://www.nationalreview.com/corner/founding-era-antislavery-and-the-overheated-freakout-over-tom-cottons-history-of-slavery/ …
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