mhatten in post #7:
<< What country codified slavery, racial hatred and discrimination into the their constitution and the individual constitutions of the various states?? >>
I don't see how you can say that the US put racial hatred and discrimination into the Constitution. Actually, at the time the Federal Constitution was written there was slavery in the northern states as well. In that sense you can say that it wasn't practical to ban it. As the northern states abolished slavery on their own initiative the stage was set for confrontation between North and South over the issue.
