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To: MacDorcha
No, the political decisions that led to the Civil War were about the Constitution, and the violation there-of by the North.

What violations of the Constitution were there?

Please name them.

The only violation that the South could cite was the election of Lincoln, who they saw as a threat to their slave empire.

276 posted on 04/27/2005 12:47:25 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Gal. 4:16)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Article 4, Section 2.

"No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due."

Amendment X

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. "





And upon secession, Amendement III (thought III may be argued prior to as well) & XI and Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution.


283 posted on 04/27/2005 1:02:10 PM PDT by MacDorcha (Where Rush dares not tread, there are the Freepers!)
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