re: #460 avanti

Chief Justice John Roberts said of the authors of the Constitution: “They never worked out what to do about slavery and just kind of shuttled that aside and decided we’re not going to talk about that. And that taint in the Constitution, took a Civil War to remove.” Later in the interview, he said that the Constitution’s amendment process “did allow some fundamental flaws to be addressed like slavery — abolished in the Thirteenth Amendment.”
Flawed ?..

I have to disagree with Justice Roberts on this one: The original constitution in no way protected or supported slavery. It took a war, and an subsequent amendment, to to stop the unconstitutional practice of slavery.