Posted on 07/06/2006 7:01:52 AM PDT by SquirrelKing
And how many of those places were constitutional democracies?
No, when they ratified the constitution they agreed to abide by the same restrictions all other states face. Or are you suggesting new states can still become states merely by ratifying the Constitution?
i just decided that you're not worth my taking time to read your drivel OR you are TERMINALLY stupid.
did you bother to read the 1st sentence of #391???? OR did you not understand what i wrote???
if the 1st is true, you have a problem of inattention. if the second possibility is true, you're an IDIOT!
in either case, i have no time for you. adios.
free dixie,sw
face it, N-S, the Constitution NO PLACE indicates that the states that ratified it EVER intended to give up any more power to the central government than were SPECIFICALLY ceded. period. end of story. (and that is the MAIN reason that the 10th Amendment is so VERY important. the 10th is the MAIN bulwark of the STATES' power & to assure that the central government does NOT become dictatorial, short of having to have another American Revolution!)
free dixie,sw
A landowner in Delano, California would not sell his land for the purpose of building a new high school unless there could be a clause that the school could not be named "Cesar Chavez H.S." The deal was accepted when it included a statement that the state would have to pay him an additional $250,000.00 IF they, in fact, did name it Cesar Chavez H.S.
The state paid the $1/4 M.
What were you stating concerning Southern Blacks fighting to maintain themselves in slavery?
Your next neo-confederate myth will be Northern Blacks rushed by the hundreds of thousands to defend pro-slavery insurrectionist politicians, the Dems.
The Lost Cause is lost forever.
lol AT you! (as most here do.)
btw, you never bothered to tell me whether you know that you are the BUTT of everyone's jokes. don't you care that everyone thinks you're a FOOL, a BIGOT & an IDIOT???
free dixie,sw
perhaps, had you mentioned STREETS i would have paid more attention.
otoh, i probably would NOT have, scalawag, as i consider EVERYTHING you post as ignorant, silly,DUMB & pointLESS.
free dixie,sw
None of which you have ever tried to answer.
Grant....
Sherman....
Butler....
Honestly, I'll believe you actually worked there when you tell me that you didn't even know it was a statue of General Robert E. Lee or who Lee Circle was named after.
I worked as kitchen help at the Red Caboose in Metarie off Causeway Blvd in the Fall of 1972.
Two bucks an hour and all the lettuce and shrimp I could steal from the back freezer area!
Am I a "twit"?
No,nor am I a "twat"a Twut"or a "tweet"but thats neither here nor there.
OK,I get it now,stand.Your wrecking of the King's English is an intentional"goof"to poke the pointy headed intellectuals in the eye.
OK,then we can dig it.
And STAND one of the other things I have never done in all of our discussions is to attack the courage and honor of the southern soldier.
The leadership of the confederacy, the Klu Klux Klan and the southern democrats of the last 140 years are my only real targets, of course you have spent as much of the same amount of time defending those I attack instead of recognizing that all that has been evil in the south can be blamed on them because they were the originators of such evil.
Why do you defend evil men?
Your trying to read between lines that don't exist. You're probably making somebody a good wife.
It was a simple link to provide data on blacks that fought for the Confederacy.
Do you have any data that proves that blacks did not fight for the Confederacy?
If so, lets see it.
Actually there was at least one Confederate General who proposed Freedom for any slaves that fought for the Confederacy.
His suggestion was ignored until the very end of the war.
" In January, 1864, General Patrick Cleburne and several other Confederate officers in the Army of the Tennessee proposed using slaves as soldiers since the Union was using black troops. Cleburne recommended offering slaves their freedom if they fought and survived. Confederate President Jefferson Davis refused to consider Cleburne's proposal and forbade further discussion of the idea. The concept, however, did not die. By the fall of 1864, the South was losing more and more ground, and some believed that only by arming the slaves could defeat be averted. On March 13, the Confederate Congress passed General Order 14, and President Davis signed the order into law. The order was issued March 23, 1865, but only a few African American companies were raised, and the war ended before they could be used in battle."
free dixie,sw
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