Basing your epiphany on a few people who were in a position to craft a few documents, (that were not destroyed, revised, or otherwise perverted) and that had a concern about slavery, is a little presumptuous.
Here's the rub. Those "few people" were their elected leaders, who had held a lock grip on Southern policy and politics since before the original Revolution, and in terms of their Constitution defined who they collectively were to a degree far in excess of anything imposed by Presidential decree today.
By your reasoning, you support Obama dealing with Iran, welfare, non criminality for looting, illegal immigration, reduced sentences for drug dealers, and increased taxes etc because the USA supports it, because politicians have wrote and and adopted perverted laws specifically to perpetuate it.
If Obama and his clique had written all these things into the very Constitution I was called upon to defend, you might have a point.
Birdwatcher
