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This 5 page paper discusses who the new Constitution decided was to be “American,” and who was left out. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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are not new; they have been part of the fabric of the country from the beginning. This paper considers the questions: how did the prevailing ideology of the time determine
precisely who were considered "Americans" under the new government; what criteria were used to determine if one belonged to the new nation; did everyone want to belong; and what were
the results of this uncertainty? Discussion The ideology of the time is familiar to almost every student of history: it was men, and furthermore, white men of property, who made
the decisions for the entire country. The shameful "three-fifths compromise" is a clear indication of the fact that black Americans were held in contempt, even as far back as the
beginning of the nation. This compromise was necessary if the Southern states were to ratify the new constitution; it came about because the Southerners wanted their slaves to count when
it came to population but not with regard to taxes.1 It was finally agreed that "five slaves would be counted as the equal of three freemen."2 The message here is
as clear as it is devastating: blacks were worth significantly less than whites. Its also worth noting that nowhere in the Constitution is the institution of slavery expressly forbidden.
A great many scholars have argued that it is the fact that the nation was founded with slavery still a part of its fabric that led directly to the Civil
War some 80 years later. The marginalization of certain groups was blatant. In his celebrated autobiography, Frederick Douglass strips all the romanticism of the "Old South" from slavery, and reveals
it for the horror that it was. A slave himself, he writes of the agony and pain of slavery in such detail that a reasonable person must surely be appalled
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