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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (1516)	1/18/2001 7:21:27 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

It was more then just social custom. Look at article IV section 2 of the originial (pre ammendment) constitution. The constitution recognized slavery. "No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due". or article 1 section 2 - "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.". The US existed before the Constitution but effictivly the states were soverign. In some ways it was a treaty between the states. Some of those states had and wanted slavery and there would have been no real federal union without allowing it (or having the civil war in the 1700s). I'm glad the law could be changed in the 1800s and that in my life time (or for 100 years before it) slavery has not been legal in the US but it was not against the original constitution. Tim