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To: central_va
You curious and comical little woodland creature ... I guess standwatie really did spread his seed all over the former Confederacy ...

I come up with 10 mentions of "slaves" or "slave-holding" in the CSA Constitution and none in the original US Constitution up to the Civil War.

To be sure the Framers got around that with phrases like "such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit" and "all other Persons" (other than free, that is), but they did avoid explictly mentioning slavery or involuntary servitude until they wanted to abolish it.

The Confederate founders didn't put slavery in every sentence, but if you read through the document, the word would certainly catch the alert reader's eye, especially in Article I, Section 9 and in Article IV, Sections 2 and 3. If you're cataloguing the differences between your Constitution and ours, the importance of slavery would be still more apparent.

So in this case Beck isn't entirely wrong, if he's wrong at all. Beck actually is right about some things -- many things, even -- but his personality turns a lot of people off.

198 posted on 06/26/2010 12:05:19 PM PDT by x
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To: x
I guess standwatie really did spread his seed all over the former Confederacy ...

i MisS sTAndWaTiE. Come hoMe StanD.

199 posted on 06/26/2010 12:09:18 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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