Posted on 05/09/2006 8:33:28 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
Wrong on so many levels ...
First, Johnson had served in the Senate as a Democrat, but he was elected VP on the Republican ticket. It is kind of funny that you feel the need to go out of your way to find a Democrat to blame for what went wrong 140 years ago, when neither party was close to what it is today.
Second, he wasn't almost impeached, he was impeached, and almost removed from office.
But the most farcical claim is that Johnson somehow torpedoed Reconstruction. The Radical Republicans had a veto-proof majority; they got the Reconstruction they wanted. Johnson had about as much to do with it as a potted plant.
The person most responsible for the failure of Reconstruction was John Wilkes Booth. If Lincoln had lived, and had pursued the kind of reconciliation he talked about in his second inaugural address, he alone could have exercised the personal leadership to keep the Radicals in line.
With his murder, the voices crying for revenge had no one who could effectively counter them. So we got Reconstruction without any real reconstructing; Union troops just punished the South for a decade and then left. And we got to divide the nation again on the issue of racial equality a few decades later.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!
In the one case where the Klan essentially ran a state, it was through the Republican party. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jackson
(rolls eyes)
The typical southron complaint. Something is unconstitutional because you say it is.
No, the Constitution gives the government the authority to standardize the weight of and coin money, not 'regulate the value of the dollar'.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 5: "To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;" I thought you read it?
REG'ULATE, v.t.
1. To adjust by rule, method or established mode; as, to regulate weights and measures; to regulate the assize of bread; to regulate our moral conduct by the laws of God and of society; to regulate our manners by the customary forms.
http://65.66.134.201/cgi-bin/webster/webster.exe?search_for_texts_web1828=regulate
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Congress can decide what the standard weight of the coin will be, NOT the value of what it's worth.
Gives a little different picture.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
Actually the Democrat Party IS RACIST to the core.
Their sole aim is and always has been to keep folks in a plantation state of mind
by today's standards, EVERYONE in the USA was "a racist" in earlier times.
free dixie,sw
he & wee willie klintoon are ideological TWINS, separated by 140 years.
BOTH were SHYSTER lawyers. BOTH had/have the morals of a hog at the trough. BOTH were interested in POWER & $$$$$$$$, to the exclusion of "doing what is morally right".
EITHER would offer the public "Free White House Recipes" to cook humans, if 3-4% of the voters chose to engage in cannibalism!
free dixie,sw
For most Confederates, any "real reconstructing" was just vengeance and "punishing the South." A large proportion of those who'd fought against the United States were adamantly opposed to racial equality or suffrage for Blacks. 140 years later people can deceive themselves about this to their heart's content, but it doesn't change the facts. Most Northerners were also opposed to racial equality, but it's wrong and a cop-out to assume that the problems with Reconstruction were all the fault of the Republicans. If the ex-Confederates had things their way, it certainly wouldn't have meant that racial equality would have come about any sooner.
Well, I imagine it does since the definition I posted was from Webster's 1828 dictionary (so as to get a definition closer to the era of the Constitution) and yours was probably from a contemporary dictionary.
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Document 6 Records of the Federal Convention
16. S & H.D. in C. ass. shall have the exclusive Right of coining Money--regulating its Alloy & Value--fixing the Standard of Weights and Measures throughout U.S.
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/a1_8_5.html
Regulation of alloy and value. How much actual precious metal and how much alloy is contained in each coin. The action of deciding what's IN the coins, does, by default, *regulate* it's value.
So what is to prevent Congress from regulating no precious metal and no alloy in the coin? In other words, paper money?
Because thou shalt not steal and thou shalt not bear false witness are STILL points of law no matter WHAT venue you're in. Coining money in such a manner would be both.
I've already explained the 'paper money'. I won't bother doing so again.
I misread your last post, sorry.
(Note to self: don't make cookies & post at the same time.)
If it has no metal and no alloy, it's not a 'coin', it's air.
Rather similar to paper money, but without the fiber.
:-)
I may have been born a Yankee, but my sympathies have always been with the South....
And where in the Constitution is that to be found?
I've already explained the 'paper money'. I won't bother doing so again.
No you've given your opinion and want the rest of us to accept it as fact. Sorry if I can't do that.
But it's still money, which the Congress is tasked with regulating.
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