re: #234 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Cute, but except for the woman part, demonstrably false. The FF were eliminating property qualifications as the Constitution was being debated and ratified — they were pretty much all gone by 1804. They were also abolishing slavery — not in the southern colonies, of course, but absolutely they were not uniformly in favor of the institution. Abolitionism didn’t start with the Dred Scott decision.

Slavery was written into the constitution. The Founding Fathers were ok with it enough to keep it in even if they were opposed.