And after. For decades after; for a century after; for centuries after. The words should have meant freedom for all all along, certainly, and yet they didn't. The use of those words to "faciliate the abolishment" was not an exercise of original intent.I meant it was used to facilitate the abolishment, those practices were alive and well before and after 1791. Still waiting on that citing I asked for.
What citing do you want? Where's your citing about women having the right to vote and slaves being entitled to freedom under the constitution? And I'm curious, what was the original intent of the South Carolina or Georgia delegations?