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To: Jim 0216

How did declaring that one particular ethnicity of human to be unsuitable for emancipation and citizenship advance the goal of “a more perfect union”?


110 posted on 02/19/2017 4:12:54 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

You miss the point. What guarantees our Free Constitutional Republic is the rule of law of the Constitution. The rule of man and his personal whims is the basis of tyranny.

The seeds of the Civil War were sown in the slave trade of the South and the need for the southern states to ratify the Constitution to create the United States of America. The compromise to not forbid slavery in the Constitution was absolutely necessary to “form a more perfect union” by establishing the Constitution. The Constitution formed a more perfect union, not a perfect union.

Nothing this side of heaven is perfect but we strive as best we can. The Lying Left gets its ammunition for more and more government tyranny by focusing on the small % of freedom that is imperfect. But the Constitutional basis of our Free Constitutional Republic was and is way ahead of whatever is in second place.

Don’t just point out a flaw. Have ready an alternative that improves freedom and happiness.


111 posted on 02/19/2017 4:52:52 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: rockrr; Jim 0216
one particular ethnicity of human

The Dred Scott case was not about any "ethnicity" en masse, but about a particular individual who was legally a slave at point A, but (perhaps) not at point B. Every state had free people of African descent.

113 posted on 02/19/2017 7:01:42 PM PST by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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