To: An.American.Expatriate
‘Are you claiming that the state governments did not represent the will of the people?’
Since slaves were people, I doubt that any of the seceding states represented the will of their people.
255 posted on
08/05/2010 4:23:27 PM PDT by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Since slaves were people, I doubt that any of the seceding states represented the will of their people. We are discussing secession and whether it is/was constitutional. Not slavery. So leave that crap for another thread.
288 posted on
08/06/2010 12:04:42 AM PDT by
An.American.Expatriate
(Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
“Since slaves were people, I doubt that any of the seceding states represented the will of their people.”
Women are people, too. So were freedmen. However, neither had the franchise. So, by your logic, you must necessarily admit that the non-seceding states did not re[resent the will of their people because at least one half of them had no voice whatsoever.
404 posted on
08/07/2010 8:01:24 PM PDT by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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