
Episode 287: Secession: Good for me but not for thee?
Words & Numbers
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What if the South Never Fires on Fort Sumter?
The word slavery appears nowhere in the Constitution. The framers did not use the word. Slavery is only given a full treatment in one place at one time and it's in federalist 54. It would have appeared in the declaration that was in Jefferson's original draft.
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