I suppose that one person's belief is another person's hyperbole. Be it lack of a supreme court or protectionist tariffs or promises to end slavery, Davis ignored his constitution in ways never dreamed of by Lincoln. You will no doubt argue that. Davis's government intruded in virtually every aspect of every segment of Southern life through taxes, travel restrictions, seizing private property for state use, controlling whole industries, declaring martial law, conscription, food shortages and jailing people without charges. You will no doubt claim Lincoln was worse; again a matter of opinion. The confederate economy was a basket case, made worse by Davis policies like his cotton embargo and running the printing presses at the mint at full speed. You will no doubt defend him and use some newspaper editorial to support your claims. In the end I do believe that all that demonstrates that Davis ran one of the worst constitution trashing, big intrusive government, high tax, high regulation, fiscally irresponsible administrations in recorded history because I can't think of too many that were worse. You'll no doubt declare that Davis' government was none of that. So be it. Tomato, tomahto. Mobilation, peaceful intent. We apparently disagree on a lot of things, semantics wise.
But hyperbole aside, and knowing what we know about libertarian beliefs, can you please explain to me why a libertarian should love the Davis government? Disagree with my claims all you want, I don't care. But go back to the beginning of the discussion and explain why Hunterite is right and that true libertarians should love the Davis government. Can you do that because I can't see how it's possible.
So, you couldn't come up with a quote supporting your beliefs.
Be it lack of a supreme court or protectionist tariffs or promises to end slavery, Davis ignored his constitution in ways never dreamed of by Lincoln.
It was the duty of the Confederate Congress to set up the Confederate Supreme Court, not Davis'. I've pointed that out to you before and how Davis reminded them of their duty to form the court.
The Confederate Congress passed the tariff act. We've had a long discussion about how protectionist or non-protectionist the Confederate tariff law was. Rmember my citation of the Yale professor's book that stated [Link]:
As was to be expected, the Confederate Congress perfected a revenue measure from which almost every trace of protective motives was removed.
promises to end slavery
To what are you referring?
Davis ignored his constitution in ways never dreamed of by Lincoln.
That hardly seems possible. Surely you remember [Link]
We apparently disagree on a lot of things
Agree.
But hyperbole aside, and knowing what we know about libertarian beliefs, can you please explain to me why a libertarian should love the Davis government?
Sorry, I really don't know much about libertarian thought.