JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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How was slavery addressed during the Second Constitutional Convention?
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A special committee made up of slave owners refused to allow the convention to take action on the problem of slavery.
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All the delegates refused to take action because it was a complex problem.
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A special committee of abolitionists petitioned the convention to end slavery, but the convention refused to address the issue.
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A special committee declared it an evil practice, but the convention left it up to the slave owners to free their slaves.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Constitution thus protected slavery by increasing political representation for slave owners and slave states; by limiting, stringently though temporarily, congressional power to regulate the international slave trade; and by protecting the rights of slave owners to recapture their escaped slaves.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Constitutional Convention debated the issue of slavery over almost a week. In the end, the delegates reluctantly agreed to allow slavery for the sake of South Carolina and Georgia. We moderns and post-moderns can debate all we want, but the case is that the Convention came very close to abolishing slavery.
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