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To: MinstrelBoy

It is quite evident to me that all men are created equal. Are you suggesting that the States have the right to suppress the civil rights of some "men" but not others?


6 posted on 01/06/2005 8:07:41 AM PST by Lekker 1
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To: Lekker 1

No. I just believe that state's rights have been changed for the worse because of and since the Civil War as a result of what happened. I do not feel that slavery was the number one priority or factor in the Civil War.


9 posted on 01/06/2005 8:13:31 AM PST by MinstrelBoy (What will you do without freedom?!)
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To: Lekker 1

Are you suggesting that the States have the right to suppress the civil rights of some "men" but not others?



No he was suggesting that the states were sovereign nations who delegated authority to the federal government with the express reservation that the states had the right to resume such delegated powers any time the federal government sought to overstep it's authority.

This entire concept is completely lost on most people today.


13 posted on 01/06/2005 8:14:45 AM PST by The Lumster (I am not ashamed of the gospel it is the power of God to all who believe)
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To: Lekker 1
Why do you immediately jump to the conclusion that exercising State's rights leads to suppression or exploitation of any given group?

The creation of the individual states is attributable to, and therefore all states are beholden to, the common principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence.

Just because each state charts their own course within the confines of a larger Republic, they have no precedent to abridge those rights that the Republic considers inalienable.

32 posted on 01/06/2005 8:34:38 AM PST by liberty_lvr (Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.)
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To: Lekker 1

Our founding fathers didn't consider slaves as "equal"....
Neither did the US Constitution.


227 posted on 01/06/2005 8:50:49 PM PST by TexConfederate1861 (Sic Semper Tyrannis!)
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To: Lekker 1

All men(women) are NOT created equal.


253 posted on 01/07/2005 6:36:38 AM PST by johnny7 (“I believe we'll finish with them in a day.” -George Armstrong Custer. 1876)
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