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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who said in a speech over the weekend that while slavery had been a “scourge,” the framers of the Constitution “worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.”

Gabriel Arana is a contributing editor at The American Prospect. His articles on gay rights, immigration, and media have appeared in publications including The New Republic, The Nation, Salon, The Advocate, and The Daily Beast.