The founders’ commitment to slavery clashed with their principle of equality.

Evidence

The Patriots prevailed, but that chasm between the protection of slavery at all costs and the creation of an independent nation predicated on the principle of equality would bedevil the founders. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 783

Categorization

• XREF: This is exactly the deviation-vs-design tension central to the reader’s reframing-argument case study.