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Re: Cops 7: What Could Go Wrong?
Our Original Sin. In his initial draft of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson included language that described the slave trade as the perverse plot of an evil English monarch designed to contaminate innocent colonists. Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers.
Slavery would seem to be completely inimical to the core values of the Declaration, but the support for it and the divisions arising out of it went so deep that the (arguably) most skilled drafters and statesmen in our country's history decided that addressing the issue head-on in 1787 might cause the whole thing to fall apart. So they turned tail and ran and gave us Article I, Section 9, paragraph 1: "The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight." Those guys were not cowards, but they knew how deep that pre-existing condition had penetrated our soul.
Back when America was Great.
Originally posted by Kepler
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Slavery would seem to be completely inimical to the core values of the Declaration, but the support for it and the divisions arising out of it went so deep that the (arguably) most skilled drafters and statesmen in our country's history decided that addressing the issue head-on in 1787 might cause the whole thing to fall apart. So they turned tail and ran and gave us Article I, Section 9, paragraph 1: "The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight." Those guys were not cowards, but they knew how deep that pre-existing condition had penetrated our soul.
Back when America was Great.
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