Frederick Douglass Had a Radical Respect for the Constitution

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Frederick Douglass Had a Radical Respect for the Constitution

Is the US Constitution for or against slavery? Questions concerning the legacy of America’s founding and how to interpret the Constitution have long gripped public discourse; in recent years they have become inseparable. From the 1980s came the originalists, a group of legal theorists who sought to recover the Constitution’s original meaning through textual analysis buttressed by historical investigation. Adhering to…