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mcdan 2 days ago

So much for "states rights" and the "laboratories of democracy."

AndrewKemendo 2 days ago | parent [-]

We had a pretty decisive event eliminating precicely that experiment

TimorousBestie 2 days ago | parent [-]

Could you be more specific?

schmidtleonard 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

He 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 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

And 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 2 days ago | parent [-]

States also weren't allow to leave the Confederacy ...

TimorousBestie 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, 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.

AndrewKemendo 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment

stocksinsmocks 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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TimorousBestie 2 days ago | parent [-]

Now that’s an excellent piece of latter-day Confederate apologia that I haven’t heard before. The South was basically Gaza. Amazing work.