U.s. Founding fathers

[tedteague]

Slavery and weather or not states would be admitted as slave or free was perhaps the single defining issue of the 20 years leading up to and during the civil war.

As stated in the declaration...many colonists allready had their own forms of governemnt in place when the crown came in to surpress them after the fact and after they said they wouldnt do any such thing.

The real, underlying issue was states rights vs federal government. It was unresolved from the constitution, not in slavery itself, but in how much the fed govt could regilate states. The same controversy exists today in Roe v Wade. The South, simply put, didnt think the Federal Govt had the right to decide if slavery was legal or not. This led to the controversy of nullification, whereby states could choose to ignore laws that they viewed as unconstitutional. They took it a step further and secceeded. To say it was about slavery is a gross over simplification, but it's what is generall taught in school . . . of course the very nature of this thread is aruguably the failures of schools to educate.

[DuncanONeil]

It was unresolved from the constitution, not in slavery itself, but in how much the fed govt could regilate states.

How was this question unresolved?