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So much for "states rights" and the "laboratories of democracy."
by mcdan 10mo ago
So much for "states rights" and the "laboratories of democracy."
- AndrewKemendo 10mo agoWe had a pretty decisive event eliminating precicely that experiment
- TimorousBestie 10mo agoCould you be more specific?
- AndrewKemendo 10mo agohttps://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment
- schmidtleonard 10mo agoHe probably means the civil war. I'd like to point out that the South was only a fan of States Rights exactly insofar as they let them do slavery. The millisecond it came to forcing Northern states to return escaped slaves, they suddenly weren't the same principled supporters of devolving and federating power. Funny how that works.
- duskwuff 10mo agoAnd just in case it wasn't clear enough already: one of the first acts of the Confederacy was to draft a provisional constitution which explicitly authorized slavery, and which prohibited either Congress or any state from passing laws to the contrary.
- lesuorac 10mo agoStates also weren't allow to leave the Confederacy ...
- TimorousBestie 10mo agoYeah, I just wanted them to cut out the coy vagueposting and say out loud how bad they think Reconstruction was. So in that respect, mission accomplished.
- stocksinsmocks 10mo ago[flagged]
- TimorousBestie 10mo agoNow that’s an excellent piece of latter-day Confederate apologia that I haven’t heard before. The South was basically Gaza. Amazing work.