I think that the best answer would be that the development has improved our language...
It prevents the government from preventing further rights to citizens. It basically give citizens the right to more rights. This allow for the government to grow and add rights to its citizens as time goes on.
Answer: The argument has often been used to diminish the scale of slavery, reducing it to a crime committed by a few Southern planters, one that did not touch the rest of the United States. Slavery, the argument goes, was an inefficient system, and the labor of the enslaved was considered less productive than that of a free worker being paid a wage.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
