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The CSA Constitution is kind of the perfect example of the "stopped clock is right twice a day" aphorism. It was intended to create a separatist society in whic
by ubernostrum 9y ago
The CSA Constitution is kind of the perfect example of the "stopped clock is right twice a day" aphorism. It was intended to create a separatist society in which brutal race-based slavery would be permanently enshrined and protected. And also happened to include line-item veto and a provision forbidding "Christmas-tree" style multi-subject bills.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoThe Nazis built good rockets. Just because you don't like someone's politics doesn't mean they can't do other things well.
- smt88 9y agoPoint taken, but "someone's politics" is really underselling the Holocaust and hundreds of years of chattel slavery.
- deadmetheny 9y agoThe idea that everything bad people did is inherently bad is nonsense. The holocaust and slavery aren't the point of the discussion.