[capitan_refugio]

CR - "The power of Congress to regulate and make rules for territories was already established before the Constitution was proposed for ratification."

LG - "Utterly irrelevant. The Constitution was still the governing document, anything that had been previously enacted to the contrary absolutely notwithstanding."

Here are the two faces of confederate apologists. Pre-constitutional law is meaningless to them, unless it is used by the Chief Justice to condemn Lincoln. This then is compounded by the denial of original intent of the Framers.

Narrow interpretations. Narrow minds.

[lentulusgracchus]

This then is compounded by the denial of original intent of the Framers. [Emphasis added.]

Screw that, bub -- you mean, the original intent of some of the Framers.

You're just reading from one side of the page and expecting us to take it. I just explained to you that the Constitutional Convention wasn't just a Hamiltonian jerkle circus. Serious people changed the document and changed the deal.

Admit it or get lost.