Slave, or indentured Servant?

Indentured servants are bound to do their masters’ bidding “in all cases whatsoever,”
during the term of their servitude. So are slaves.

A primary difference between a slave and an indentured servant is that the term of servitude of an indentured servant is fixed and finite, whereas a slave’s term of servitude is indefinite and, in effect, infinite, until and unless his master chooses to set him free.

So, consider now the more than half-a million denizens of DC. Bound by the overwhelming might of their masters and countrymen, as embodied in the nation’s Constitution, they are to be ruled indefinitely, “in all cases whatsoever;” to be forced forever to do their countrymen’s bidding, without any real say whatsoever of their own, in either national or local affairs. Should they be considered indentured servants, or slaves? Clearly, one thing they are not is a free people. They cannot be free until set free (if ever) by the “noblesse oblige” (q.v.) of their masters and countrymen, the American people.

This, we call “democracy.” Surely the Founding Fathers would agree.