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You can't just say the founders were wrong on slavery. You have to say which were wrong. They had to make a compromise to get states to agree to the Constitution, which states perceived as threatening their rights more than the Articles of Confederation. They compromised with the understanding that the problem will be resolved later, and it ultimately was decided 70 years later in the bloodiest war in American history.


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