Why Were The Radical Republicans Radical?

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I feel that the writers of the Constitution had no choice but to "ignore" the slavery issue. 1. The Articles of Confederation had failed to bring about a united country. 2. A substantial amount of states that were needed to cooperate in building a united country were slave states. 3. The new Constitution would need to be ratified by a majority of the states before becoming law. 4. The slavery issue in writing would only cause trouble with getting the document signed into law. 5. So let's ignore it for the time being, and get the Constitution ratified. 6. The elected government from that point on could argue about how to deal with the issue via amendments.

That's exactly what they did, only it took over fifty years; a civil war; and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to get there.