Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear; they say what voters want to say.
Politics, History
The creators of the Constitution were not purple-robed scholars, sitting in their ivory towers attempting to put abstract theories into play, but men who had come to realize that their system of government was broken. These men desired desperately to repair it.
History
America was not willing to chop down the Empire on October 26, 1774, but it was gripping the ax.
while the framers of the United States Constitution were ashamed of slavery and used euphemisms in place of the term "slave", the authors of the Confederate Constitution proudly used the term no less than ten times.