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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-consti...

> There is some truth to this insistence. But it is mostly disingenuous. The Constitution was meant to foster a complex form of majority rule, not enable minority rule.

Forming the United States also took a lot of compromise. If nobody was willing to budge on these archaic issues we wouldn't be here today. It doesn't change the vision that all men are created equal and entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

[pphysch]

Nor does it change the fact that the USA has been violating that vision since day 1, and despite some moments of light, hasn't stopped.