The Flawed Genius of the Constitution
Posted on AllSides September 10th, 2020
From The Left
ANALYSIS
Why do i love the U.S. Constitution? This instrument formally converted the worth of my great-great-grandfather Sidiphus into three-fifths’ that of a free person. Living in the East Indies as a free man, Sidiphus had been tricked into enslavement—recruited to a Georgia farm just before the Civil War by the promise of a foremanship. Had he managed to escape Georgia and bondage prior to the onset of the war, the Constitution would not have protected his God-given natural rights.
Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution determined that representation in...
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