"...united for national defense and a handful of policies..."
Policies, right, like life, LIBERTY and etc. etc. etc.
Given that slavery was LEGAL at the time of our founding and the writing of our Constitution and that many of our founders, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington ect were slave owners. It would seem pretty clear that they thought slavery to be legal and fall within the Constitution… It’s also fairly clear that they believed that the US should be a country for Caucasians to govern.
You can like that or not. You can apply your 21st century ideas how you like but those would seem to me to be obvious historical facts and did not give Lincoln or any President thereafter the right to violate our Constitution.
