As American born, black people of African Slave Trade heritage, they/we, that is, our chattel enslaved ancestors and Freemen (non slave blacks) were not included in the July 2-4, 1776, Declaration of Independence, nor freedom for them/us in the June 21, 1789 ratification of the Constitution which authorizes and enforces the First Law of the United States.
However, since the Triad of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, particularly that of 14th which codified, enshrined, embedded the 1866 Civil Rights Act, the First such law in the then history of the USA, which is 90 years (1776-1866), based in the President Abraham Lincoln Executive Ordered, January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, American born black people are now indeed included in both foundational Laws.
The Declaration of Independence says,
“That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”
Therefore, the 1866 Civil Rights, federal super citizenship of black citizens being codified into the Constitution, thereby now also belatedly included in the Declaration of Independence, as a latter segment of We the People, the matter of “as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness“, is now our authority as well, especially when coupled with the Emancipation Proclamation…(editions mine)
“,,,all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;
…and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.”
…And…Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9, super citizens, of unwilling chattel slavery heritage have enormously, unprecedented power to enforce their will within the confines of the Constitution in such a way that white citizens, whom are of willing immigration heritage, are not qualified to exercise.
rticle I, Sec. II, Paragraph III: The Three-Fifths Clause (1787)
Article I, Section IX, Clause I: The Importation Clause (1787)
Article IV, Sec. II, Clause III: The Fugitive Slave Clause (1787)
(See Full Verses)
Also, such is eliminated and nullified, rendering obsolete the following Constitutional laws and US Supreme Court Decision:
The March 6,1857, Dred Scott, US Supreme Court Decision rendering that chattel slaves, and said Negroes, including Freemen (non slave blacks) could never be citizens
Terrific post but I was wanting to know if you could write a litte more on this subject? I’d be very grateful if you could elaborate a little bit further. Kudos!