Deborah Harrell wrote: > >I find it ironic that so many of our founders and >subsequent leaders had such difficulty with this >concept of equality: that race, creed and gender have >no bearing on 'self-evident truths.' >I find it marvelous and amazing that they nevertheless >created one of the most tolerant and democratic >societies in history - one that is arrogantly proud >yet scathingly self-critical. > Well put.
>Our book club recently finished Joseph Ellis' >_Founding Brothers_ - talk about the right men at the >right time in the right places...mirabile dictu! (if >my HS Latin recall is correct) > Hmm, I'm reading that right now and in fact the chapter I'm on is discussing this very thing. It seems that they had to make the constitution ambiguous in order to appease South Carolina and Georgia. It also says something about how people thought that the momentum of the revolution would bring an end to slavery. Doug
