CSPAN3 Lectures In History October 25, 2022
So up to this point in the course, weve been talking a lot about the degree to which the constitution did not simply take the form of a written legal document right but rather as a set of ideas about the structure and function of american governance. And among these key ideas was a reliance on union particularly those mutual bonds of nationhood between states often known as comedy and the production of compromise, right . The constitution is a commitment to compromise. And because compromise was baked into the constitution. So too was the evil of slavery. Because they were consistently comprom...