Failed Slavery Amendment

The man who proposed this amendment

No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
This failed amendment, proposed in 1861, basically stated that the government had no right to interfere with any domestic institutions of the United States. And specifically mentioned slavery. This means that if it was ratified, then the government would not have had the power to abolish slavery.

I think this amendment was proposed because anti slavery was starting to get popular in the United States, and people were starting to get scared that slavery would be abolished by the government. This was a last ditch effort to try and take away the government’s ability to do that. I was obviously proposed a little to late because it was only ratified by two states. I think nobody liked this proposed amendment because they started to realize that slavery was barbaric, and inhuman.

If this amendment were proposed today there would probably be outrage. Nowadays there is such a focus on equality and social justice, that there is no possible way that it would be ratified. Whoever proposed the amendment would be eaten alive, and hated by everyone around. So, in conclusion. There is no possible way that this amendment would be even proposed to congress, and even less chance it would be ratified.

Source: http://www.usconstitution.net/constamfail.html