{"id":12156,"date":"2024-02-19T06:03:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T06:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/discussion-7-chapter-four-african-americans-and-revolution-what-does-the-u-s-constitution-mean-to-you\/"},"modified":"2024-02-19T06:03:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T06:03:26","slug":"discussion-7-chapter-four-african-americans-and-revolution-what-does-the-u-s-constitution-mean-to-you","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/discussion-7-chapter-four-african-americans-and-revolution-what-does-the-u-s-constitution-mean-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion #7: Chapter Four &#8211; African Americans and Revolution, What does the U.S. Constitution Mean to You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Is the United States Constitution a real model of &#8220;freedom&#8221; or &#8220;democracy&#8221; or &#8220;independence?&#8221; Post-Revolutionary America was bitterly disappointing to African Americans, who during and immediately after the Revolution had some reason to hope that slavery might collapse. All but three of the new nation&#8217;s thirteen states banned the importation of slaves from outside the United States. Only Georgia resumed the trade uninterrupted. The politicians who drafted the U.S. Constitution in 1787 extended both slavery and the slave trade by agreeing that the United States would not withdraw from the international slave trade prior to 1808 and by creating few checks on the institution within the United States. The Founding Fathers protected slavery and the interests of slaveholding states and the rights of African Americans were virtually ignored.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Do you think that the U.S. Constitution still upholds the principles and ideals of freedom and democracy? Does it protect the rights of minority groups? Or, is it a document that fails to ensure liberty and justice for all? Are individuals and political entities\/parties ignoring the U.S. Constitution for their personal benefit and success? Can &#8220;we the people&#8221; unite and work together to make this country better? Why or why not?<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the United States Constitution a real model of &#8220;freedom&#8221; or &#8220;democracy&#8221; or &#8220;independence?&#8221; Post-Revolutionary America was bitterly disappointing to African Americans, who during and immediately after the Revolution had some reason to hope that slavery might collapse. All but three of the new nation&#8217;s thirteen states banned the importation of slaves from outside the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[30],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/12156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/12156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=12156"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=12156"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=12156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}