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By devising the "three fifths" compromise and entering it into Article I Section 2 of the Constitution as census of enumeration scheme, the framers of the Constitution shamelessly sidestepped the issue of slavery by relegating slaves to being known as "other persons" who comprise only three fifths of a person hood and in doing so condoned slavery, and set precedent for the notion that not all people are created equal. Because slaves were deemed to be only three fifths of a person, they could not enjoy the rights belonging to a whole person and so the business of slavery went about its day to day business until the passage of the 13th Amendment and the Civil War that followed.
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∙ 6y agoNo. The men in the room were for the most part slave owners. They were the educated and wealthy of the colonies, but they didn't really want to address the problem of slavery.
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Did the Constitution grant Lincoln or the national government the power to regulate slavery or was it reserved to the states?
The Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce, and presumably interstate trade or transport of slaves. Otherwise, state laws would generally apply (ownership rights and obligations, transfer, upkeep, treatment, marriages, offspring, etc).
Why did the Framers of the Constitution decide to grant Congress the power to tax?
The weak Congress created under the Articles of Confederation had no power to regulate interstate trade and little authority over foreign commerce, so Congress was given the power to tax.
What does the constitution not give the federal government the power to regulate?
Power to set state taxes.
Why did the constitution not give Lincoln the power to end slavery?
because he didn't have the power to do it
Where in the constitution is the president given power to grant pardons?
present
What is the limit the constitution places on the commerce power?
Congress cannot regulate foreign trade.
Who is the given the power under the constitution to grant individual pardons?
President
Is the power to regulate interstate commerce an expressed power in the US Constitution?
Yes, it is expressed in Article I, Section 8 as the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states and with the Indian tribes.
What in the constitution that gives congress power to regulate all business that cross state line?
commerce clause
Most Americans agreed on what two changes to the Articles of Confederation?
They agreed to change the Articles of Confederation to grant congress the power to regulate commerce and tax the people.
What type of power did the constitution grant the national government in written words?
good question
Did Ulysses S. Grant make any changes to the Constitution?
That is not within the President's power.
