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Well, he wasn't wrong.

• XorNot 7mo ago
  Whining about States rights to enslave people is certainly a take. Particularly when in context, the war was caused by the South acting to usurp abolition in the North via the legal system (i.e. Dredd Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott) The importance and applicability of "states rights" is always oddly narrow.
  • b40d-48b2-979e 7mo ago
    The importance and applicability of "states rights" is always oddly narrow. It's also always ignoring the declarations of secession that all explicitly name slavery as the motivation.
  • wat10000 7mo ago
    The Confederate Constitution was mostly a copy of the US Constitution. One place where it differed is that it forbade any state from abolishing slavery. So the whole "states' rights" thing is obvious baloney.