Slavery didn't make much sense under the Constitution anyway, as it guaranteed every man here was equal to each other and free.

By virtue alone, slavery should have been abolished. However, I am starting to believe that they should have sent the slaves back -- even after being integrated into society, the people today who are no more slaves than anyone else now point to the past for all of their problems and failures and use it to justify attacking us. Even as their own forebears had such wonderful culture that so many have tossed aside.

I don't agree with limiting a President to two terms as it was essentially a shackle on the Presidency due to Congress who currently enjoy zero term limits themselves not liking their own lack of control.

As for the 19th, prior to the 19th amendment there was no Constitutional requirement that voters strictly be male, instead it was a losing social issue that likely was on its way to being corrected without an amendment on its own due to how the Constitution is amended in the first place.

In regards to other things, there are positives and negatives that have occurred and it's difficult to say where we'd be today had they not. I don't necessarily agree that we should have stopped by the tenth amendment, but rather I am understanding why people believe we should have.

"Welfare" is of course just playing word games as it wasn't in the spirit of the original use to give federal funds to private citizens in perpetuity.

Imo, election of senators should have stayed with the states. Currently more state legislatures are majority republican and naturally would have voted for republican senators. We could have had a super majority in the senate had they not monkeyed around with that.