Question 1: Why did Frederick Douglass compare the American government and the American Constitution to a ship and a compass? Explain Douglass' analogy and how that analogy helps explain Douglass' [late] stance on the Constitution being a pro-slavery or anti-slavery document.
Question 2: What evidence - from Jefferson, from the Declaration itself, or from the writings of other Founding Fathers or the philosophers that influenced them - would a textualist interpretation of the Declaration of Independence highlight when arguing that even when Jefferson's famous words were written that "all men are created equal" such beliefs in equality did not extend to indigenous people or people of African descent? Provide at least one such example.