{"id":3177,"date":"2025-07-14T18:32:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/?page_id=3177"},"modified":"2025-07-14T18:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:40:05","slug":"constitution-making","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/constitution-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">&#8220;What will be said of this new principle of founding a Right to govern Freemen on a power derived from slaves in preference to other property themselves incapable of governing yet giving to others what they have not. The omitting of the\u00a0<em>Word<\/em>\u00a0will be regarded as an Endeavour to conceal a principle of which we are ashamed.&#8221; \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/constitutional-convention-1787\/\">John Dickinson, July 9, 1787<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h1><strong>From Independence to Union, 1776-1787<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Confederation<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/subject_menus\/constpap.asp\">State Constitutions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Great Compromise (bicameral legislature)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<h1><strong>Types of Slavery<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>War\/Conquest<\/li>\n<li>Peonage\/Debt<\/li>\n<li>Serfdom<\/li>\n<li>Indentured<\/li>\n<li>Chattel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h1><strong>1787 \u2013 Making the Constitution\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2658\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2024\/07\/1024px-James_Madison_by_Charles_Willson_Peale_1783.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2658\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2024\/07\/1024px-James_Madison_by_Charles_Willson_Peale_1783-150x150.png\" alt=\"James Madison 1783\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2024\/07\/1024px-James_Madison_by_Charles_Willson_Peale_1783-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2024\/07\/1024px-James_Madison_by_Charles_Willson_Peale_1783-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Madison, 1783 (age 32) (Library of Congress)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">3\/5 Compromise<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Gradual ban on the importation of slaves<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Fugitive Slave Law<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em data-start=\"1151\" data-end=\"1189\">Can liberty survive self-government?<\/em><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em data-start=\"1221\" data-end=\"1275\">Can self-government survive compromise with slavery?<\/em><\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h1><strong>1857 \u00a0&#8211; Dred Scott &amp; the Constitutional Crisis over Slavery<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3178\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2025\/07\/Dred-Scott-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3178\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2025\/07\/Dred-Scott-795x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dred Scott\" width=\"525\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2025\/07\/Dred-Scott-795x1024.jpg 795w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2025\/07\/Dred-Scott-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2025\/07\/Dred-Scott-768x989.jpg 768w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2025\/07\/Dred-Scott-1192x1536.jpg 1192w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2025\/07\/Dred-Scott-1590x2048.jpg 1590w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2025\/07\/Dred-Scott-scaled.jpg 1987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dred Scott, c. 1857 (Wikimedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What will be said of this new principle of founding a Right to govern Freemen on a power derived from slaves in preference to other property themselves incapable of governing yet giving to others what they have not. 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