[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "It offends the human sense of fairness that some should have so much without really working for it.
But they acquired that wealth legally according to the laws of that time frame, and so people had to accept that it was unfair, but not illegal.
This still doesn't make it reasonable to rig the laws against them, just because they had money."

Your endless protestations notwithstanding, Federal laws from 1800 until 1861 were made by Southerners for Southerners.
They had no legitimate reasons to complain.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Indeed! Southern Supreme Court members outnumbered Northerners five to four.

[DiogenesLamp]

You keep saying that, but nobody is buying it. It doesn't even make any sense. There were far more Northern states than Southern states, but you would have us believe the Southern states controlled the congress?

That is just stupid on the face of it.