Constitutional Amendments XIII - XV

I have heard the Constitution of the United States disparaged as an hypocrisy for having been written by a bunch of slave-holding plantation owners. This person did not hold it in reverence or judge it in the historical context of 18th century compromise, or admire Americans for having morally improved this Constitution by Amendment. Here are three powerful Amendments from the period immediately following the Civil War (Amendment XIV shown only in part to conserve space). As I recently said of the Bill of Rights, no book can do full justice to what is simply written in so few words. It is how good poetry plays to the mind. Amendment XIII. Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall ex…