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Leadified said:
VGPolyglot said:

The problem is that the constitution was written by rich, white slave-owners who wanted to stay at the top. It's biased towards haves and against the have-nots. Also, court is not a viable option for most people because they either cannot afford the court costs or have to provide for their family are so desperate to get out that they enter a plea deal, forever cementing them with a criminal record.

Can you provide some citations from the American constitution on what makes it so biased?

Namely property rights: the fact that richer people have a lot more property and the fact that many workers do not own the means of production means that they are either forced to work in a capacity where they get a set amount of money and the owner gets all of the rest of the profits or they refuse and have to starve to death. There's also the amendment that ended slavery, except of course if it is for a crime. Rich people have better lawyers and more connections, so obviously they can avoid prison more easily than poorer people, which puts prisoners into slavery (not to mention as poorer people have less property they have less money and as they cannot afford to make ends meet they become desperate and commit theft, and the law ignores the circumstances: for example is a poor person stole $100 from Bill Gates to pay for food for his family he would get arrested, despite Bill Gates never needing that money at all).