@BillRM,
BillRM wrote:. . . Now the fact that only 12 of the 13 states did send delegates to the convention should be known by anyone with a good grounding in history that you seem to lack. Poor little RI did not come to the party. Off hand I think they was also the very last of the 13 states to sign the constitution
So out of the 12 states five of them was slave states and once more Virginia was the equal at least of New York or Pennsylvania in wealth or population or important in the early colonies.
Better luck next time.
Your ramblings serve no purpose at all. Borrowing a phrase from Major Pierce,
you labor to produce a trifle.
Slave owners were indeed hypocrites, but they did not comprise the majority nor even 50 percent of the 55 delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention as you falsely alleged. Again, most convention delegates were deeply opposed to slavery. For example, the chief delegate from the State of New Jersey was Governor Livingston. He was heavily involved in the anti-slavery movement.
The convention was called to remedy the evils and ill effects of a weak central government. The Articles of Confederation failed to provide for the common defense, the general welfare, and
security of liberty.
Concerning the deficiency of the Articles, Delegate Gerry pronouced that the evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. Delegate Mason argued that the delegates ought to attend to the RIGHTS of EVERY class of the people. He insisted on a system of government that provided no less carefully for the rights and happiness of the lowest classes than of the highest classes.
Delegate Rand stated the general object of the convention was to provide a cure for the evils under which the U.S. labored. Those evils were traced to the turbulence and follies of democracy. The U.S. needed constitutional checks to guard against these evils. Delegate Madison stated it was essential for Government to provide for the safety, LIBERTY, and happiness of the people--and that was the purpose of their deliberations. Madison stated it was necessary to provide more effectually for the security of private rights and the steady dispensation of Justice. "Interferences with these were the evils which had more perhaps than any thing else, produced this convention." The mission of the convention was to frame an effective government with sufficient checks and balances to safeguard the people against tyranny and despotism.
In your ignorance, you may deny our national history and the purposes and intent of the framers, but your denials have no basis in fact or law. Again, the Civil War Amendments changed our constitutional landscape forever. The federal government acquired the constitutional power to secure and enforce our rights against STATE infringements. The States were constitutionally forbidden from depriving any person of equal protection of the laws.
The judicial branch of government is vested with the power and authority to adjudicate all cases and controversies arising under the Constitution. Our courts have been slow to enforce our constitutional guarantees (see, e.g., Plessy v. Ferguson), but reason and logic eventually prevails (see, e.g., Brown v. Board of Education, Loving v. Virginia, Roe v. Wade, Romer v. Evans, Lawrence v. Texas).
It makes no difference that our framers could not foresee the future and the different forms of families that would come into existence. They provided this nation with constitutional principles that endure from one generation to the next. In the same way our constitution protects modern forms of bearable arms and communications, our constitution protects modern forms of families, including families headed by homosexual couples. The tyranny of the mob cannot prevail pursuant to the supreme law of the land.
