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We had a pretty decisive event eliminating precicely that experiment
by AndrewKemendo 11mo ago
We had a pretty decisive event eliminating precicely that experiment
- TimorousBestie 11mo agoCould you be more specific?
- AndrewKemendo 11mo agohttps://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment
- schmidtleonard 11mo 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 11mo 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 11mo agoStates also weren't allow to leave the Confederacy ...
- TimorousBestie 11mo 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 11mo ago[flagged]
- TimorousBestie 11mo agoNow that’s an excellent piece of latter-day Confederate apologia that I haven’t heard before. The South was basically Gaza. Amazing work.