Let’s Make a Deal: The Great Compromise

There would have been no Constitution without compromise, but politics trumped principles in surprising— and unsettling—ways when it came to slavery. The framers of the Constitution knew better than to use the word “slave” or “slavery” in their blueprint for republican government. What an embarrassment that would be for a nation founded on the principle …

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