Perhaps Justice Kennedy needs to do a bit more reading on the Founding Fathers before he begins discounting their “general language.” We have extensive writing from the Framers on virtually every word of the Constitution. 

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“Great Compromise”

Of the 55 Convention delegates, about 25 (almost half!) owned slaves. The delegates from Southern (democrat/slave) states wanted to counts slaves as part of their population. This would give the Southern states additional representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. Delegates from the Northern (republican/Free) states strongly opposed this, arguing that if slaves had no rights to vote (or any other rights of citizenship) then the South should not be given additional representatives in the House. Also, the North feared that counting slaves as part of the South’s population would allow the South to have enough representatives in the House to out-vote the North on issues regarding slavery. Read More: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~ras2777/amgov/slavery2.html

Damn Propaganda or Kennedy is really this stupid or senile and should be removed!

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, speaking at the annual conference of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Monterey, waxed eloquent on the deficiencies of the Constitution and implied that those who believe in the original intent of the Constitution by swearing fealty to the original, literal meaning are misguided.

Most of Kennedy’s nearly hour-long speech focused on the Magna Carta, originally signed in 1215 and due for its 800th anniversary next year. But he couldn’t resist taking a swipe at the Constitution, noting, “The Constitution of the United States is a flawed document,” its “thinly veiled language… basically reaffirmed the legality of slavery.” Kennedy was referencing the section of the Constitution in which each slave was defined as three-fifths of a person in the estimation of how many congressional delegates each state was allotted. He added that the soldiers who died in the Civil War were “one of the things it cost for having a Constitution that was flawed.”