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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaebr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points Progives:' often demand substantial changes to the Constitution due to! ias hrmers' Macst motives V While the relationhip between slavery and the Constitution is a fraught subect, the radi :l imnplictions of their argument would underrine using the past as a source for knowledge. SProgressives further fail to aporeciate Nhe extent to whih he racst aspects of the Cor- stitution were severable Porn the doc r s ionp led vision of sel -Cover ment. Histr shws tha ratner than being inherently rart, some of the constitutional features they cnrize have enhanced the poitica! po. eri- racial minori ies, n'More work needs to be done to undo racial inequality in the United States, but the Con - statution as it comes down to us should not be reformed simplv because of the founders rnoral failings. The Constitution end' oulb cdil was, in its orig.ns, a racist document, It recognized the onainued enslavement of African Americans and granted slaveholders political and legal advantages above what owners of other property enjoyed, Tie Cv3 War Amendments removed these defects from the Constrtton., and .he cie i righrs legislation of dOe postwar era has in many respects made good on those promises. Nonetheless, some progressive critics of the Constitution see ransm embedded much more deeply in die document and argue these changes have not been s nfficie Rather, they see the Constitution as a continued bulwark for White suprenacy in the United States. in the lead essay of the Neci> York Times i`aIgc- cie's 169 Project, Nikole {Hannah-Jones argues tnat this nations white founders set up a decid- edly undemocratic Constitution that excluded women, Native Americans and black people, and did not provide the vote or equality for most Anmercans., She clains this is part of a long his- tor. that deeply embedded racism in American politics, culture, and economics. As for the tetn of the Constitution itself, whose authors studiously avoided uMgng the word slavery. Han na-i Jonres approvingly quotes from the third entry in t.'?igel-----a series of pseudonymous an i-fedetralist

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