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Because, at the time, the South strongly defended slavery and the framers knew if they abolished or aimed at slavery, the South may be upset with the Constitution and never agree to it. The North alone would never have been able to ratify the Constitution on their own, they needed the South, as well, so, in order to gain their full support, slavery had to be left out of the Constitution. They also assumed slavery would dissapate by the early 1800's.
Some of the states would not ratify, or approve, the new Constitution if they had anything to do with slavery. For compromise, the Founding Fathers agreed to let the matter of slavery be left alone for at least 20 years.
The large plantation owners had used slaves to run their plantations for several generations. Their agricultural economy was based on slave labor. They had great sums of money invested in their slaves. They insisted on their right to keep slaves. Slave-owners had the political power in the colonies where they lived. These states would not have ratified a constitution that did not allow slavery.
Many framers didn't abolish slavery because they benefited from slavery. If they didn't own slaves, many of their friends did.
Because slavery was too big. They vouldnt just stop it, and if they tried there is a chance that the required 9 states wouldnt approve it. Then where would we be
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What does farmers of the constitution mean?
I think you mean Framers of the Constitution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States
What is the framers of constitution?
The term Framer is generally used to describe those who helped create the Constitution. ( Founders, sometimes used as a more general term, is really those who helped create the Declaration of Independence.) * ---- Ahhh and also they maybe have put the FRAME around the constitution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What influenced the constitution?
The Constitution was influenced by the Articles of Confederation. When the framers wrote the Constitution, they had only intended to amend the Articles, but a whole new document emerged.
What were the first set of laws of the US called?
The first set of U.S. laws were called The Articles of Confederation. The framers were going to amend it, but instead wrote the Constitution.
How did the framers protect liberty and specify its powers?
The framers were considered "the best people" in the country they wrote the Constitution and made sure Liberty was kept by keeping the country together and making it fair for every free man We hol these truths to be self evident that all men were created equal...
What is an original of the US Constitution?
What the framers wanted when they wrote the constitution
What are framers?
Framers are people who wrote the constitution
What was the purpose of the Electoral College when the Framers wrote the Constitution?
What was the purpose of the Electoral College when the Framers wrote the Constitution?
What are the people who wrote the Constitution known as?
Framers
What had to be practiced in order to get the southern states to sign the constitution?
Slavery. Initially Jefferson wrote a clause outlawing slavery but it was too unpopular and the Framers were worried it wouldn't be ratified by the southern states.
What are the men who wrote the Constitution sometimes called?
Framers
What was the framers most recent event?
they wrote the constitution
Abraham Lincoln wrote to abolish slavery?
The Emancipation Proclamation.
What did framers do?
they fought in the war and wrote our declaration of independence and our constitution.
The framers wrote this section of the constitution for a changing nation?
amendments
What is the framers in us history?
The founding fathers who wrote the US constitution.
Charles beard argument against the Framers?
he claimed that the Framers were rich people who wrote the Constitution to benefit themselves
