That's not actually true though - plenty of things happen in open and direct violation of Article VI every day, and nothing happens. There is no mechanism to enforce the Constitution agreeing with itself, especially under martial law.
An interesting interpretation! Of course, the reason why the Bill of Rights isn't in the Constitution is because it never would have been ratified if it was. But it never would have been ratified either if the more freedom-minded folks hadn't been sufficiently assured that a Bill of Rights would come next, promise.
It was a real sticky wicket because there were those who were very much trying to use the Constitution's framing for their own political ends, and they saw an opportunity to end a long-standing practice they saw as evil: human trafficking. Any universal guarantee of rights would have to be secondary, because it would take multiple years more to hammer out wordings (and just a lot of time spent sweet-talking and assuring the South) that wouldn't free the victims of human trafficking, thus robbing half of the country of their industrial might, and making them economically subservient to the other half.
So? What does that have to do with anything I was saying? Due to their better ports with rivers that stretched farther into the country, magic money machines in New York, and very importantly receiving oodles of tax money from states with the economic boon of stolen labour, the Northern states generally did not need to rely on human trafficking for internal revenue the same way Southern states needed to (again, if they did not want to fall into economic subservience, WHICH WAS THE WHOLE REASON WHY THEY REVOLTED IN THE FIRST PLACE).
Of course, human trafficking was legal in most of the country, and people all across the country actively engaged with it as well as passively benefitted from it, and people all across the country tried to fight against it.
But one region needed the economic might human trafficking provides, while the other region could muddle along without it, especially if they were able to make the other region economically subservient to them... And of course this is made even easier when you coincidentally decide to change a hundred years of policy and start foreign adventurism, knocking over South American countries for so fruit companies can have record profits.
I was trying to be careful to not put moral consideration onto one region over the other, and very intentionally didn't say "The North" when I said "more freedom-minded folks", because those folks were found all over the country, sometimes even people who were actively owning humans as objects - humans are complicated. All of the country was complicit in human trafficking, but one side was more economically beholden to it, and this weak spot allowed the other side to put them over a barrel and have their way with them, as I alluded to.
That's not actually true though - plenty of things happen in open and direct violation of Article VI every day, and nothing happens. There is no mechanism to enforce the Constitution agreeing with itself, especially under martial law.
An interesting interpretation! Of course, the reason why the Bill of Rights isn't in the Constitution is because it never would have been ratified if it was. But it never would have been ratified either if the more freedom-minded folks hadn't been sufficiently assured that a Bill of Rights would come next, promise.
It was a real sticky wicket because there were those who were very much trying to use the Constitution's framing for their own political ends, and they saw an opportunity to end a long-standing practice they saw as evil: human trafficking. Any universal guarantee of rights would have to be secondary, because it would take multiple years more to hammer out wordings (and just a lot of time spent sweet-talking and assuring the South) that wouldn't free the victims of human trafficking, thus robbing half of the country of their industrial might, and making them economically subservient to the other half.
So? What does that have to do with anything I was saying? Due to their better ports with rivers that stretched farther into the country, magic money machines in New York, and very importantly receiving oodles of tax money from states with the economic boon of stolen labour, the Northern states generally did not need to rely on human trafficking for internal revenue the same way Southern states needed to (again, if they did not want to fall into economic subservience, WHICH WAS THE WHOLE REASON WHY THEY REVOLTED IN THE FIRST PLACE). Of course, human trafficking was legal in most of the country, and people all across the country actively engaged with it as well as passively benefitted from it, and people all across the country tried to fight against it.
But one region needed the economic might human trafficking provides, while the other region could muddle along without it, especially if they were able to make the other region economically subservient to them... And of course this is made even easier when you coincidentally decide to change a hundred years of policy and start foreign adventurism, knocking over South American countries for so fruit companies can have record profits.
I was trying to be careful to not put moral consideration onto one region over the other, and very intentionally didn't say "The North" when I said "more freedom-minded folks", because those folks were found all over the country, sometimes even people who were actively owning humans as objects - humans are complicated. All of the country was complicit in human trafficking, but one side was more economically beholden to it, and this weak spot allowed the other side to put them over a barrel and have their way with them, as I alluded to.