Oh yeah, it all started out perfectly

"Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves."
-- James Madison, Letter to R. H. Lee, July 17, 1785

That was awfully thoughtful of the 'Father of the Constitution', wasn't it? He was probably giving his slaves Sunday afternoon off by then.

Let me see if I got this right; Michael Steele is criticizing Elena Kagan because she's a fan of Thurgood Marshall, who had the uppishness and the audacity to say that, "the Constitution, as originally drafted and conceived, was "defective"?

Am I missing something? Justice Marshall had every right to say that because it is undeniably true. The 'original' was obviously defective to some people.