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To: i-node who wrote (115141)	3/22/2019 5:21:48 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 357871

The Founders lived before the Industrial Revolution in a collection of colonies where slavery was legal in most of them. And it was crucial for those slave states, which typically had small populations that weren't enslaved, buy into the new country. Even with them, there was a lot of land and not a lot of people, so the slave states were important for the survival of the new country. So no, they weren't idiots. They were doing the best they could with what they had. Even then, the compromises they made wound up causing the country to slide into civil war when the slave states realized their grip on power was slipping away. A lot of people died as a result.

To: i-node who wrote (115141)	3/22/2019 5:31:39 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 357871

"Why do you think the Founders decided to do it this way?" Lack of foresight. "Were they just idiots?" I'd call them "unimaginative". No one said, "Hey, just cuz it takes X days to travel the length of the country doesn't mean we won't be a nation of over 300,000,000 people, where somebody in what will be Arkansas will be able to instantaneously exchange info with somebody near the Pacific ocean, which we will find when we run out of walking space in about 30 years."