As fallen humans figure out. That's right. Eventually get better at, like, our own founding is similar. Right. The Declaration of Independence is. And The Constitution itself is... very much an abolitionist document. And the founders had that problem where they were like, we can't write it too hard, but if we write these words, I think eventually people have to go back to these words and say, like, we can. (55:17–55:24)
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Asserts that the U.S. Constitution contains abolitionist principles.
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