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The US Constitution is a document written to forge a brand new government by some of the most learned men of their generation, based upon their colected centuries of reading and analysis and study of old governmental systems, thinkers, and political writers.
It was never meant to be a declaration of who is good and who is not, who is put in and who is left out. at the time, and this is a horrid thought but it is true, white folks considered anyone not white to be beneath them, not in class or status, but in SPECIES. it was the accepted religiouscentric view.
obviously to us that is a backwards and ridiculous stance to take, but it was what it was. the US constitution allowed for changes to itself which would express the ongoing changes in society. that is genius.
think about how impossible it was for a people to change the laws of their country before that. the magna carta took countless lives to accomplish and it was just a small step.
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