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After the Dred Scott decision, Frederick Douglass said he sought to have Americans live up to the principles of the Constitution. What did he believe prevented Americans from living up to the Constitution?

1. manifest destiny
2. abolition
3. popular sovereignty
4. slavery

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Frederick Douglass believed that slavery prevented Americans from living up to the principles of the Constitution. He argued that the existence of slavery was fundamentally at odds with the values of liberty and equality enshrined in the Constitution. Therefore, the correct answer is:

  1. slavery.