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To: Non-Sequitur; Texas Mulerider; All
tell us all, Mr Minister, how many years after 1776 did it take the US government to actually seat a US Supreme Court???

could it be that a CSSC never got established because the CSA was more interested in trying to drive out the "filth that flowed down from the north" and that there was a war for national SURVIVAL being fought???

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578 posted on 06/17/2006 10:56:29 AM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: stand watie
tell us all, Mr Minister, how many years after 1776 did it take the US government to actually seat a US Supreme Court???

As had been pointed out to you several times before the Articles of Confederation did not require a Supreme Court. But under the Constitution the Judiciary Act organizing the court was passed by the first session of the first Congress, the first justices confirmed that same year, and the first session sat in 1790.

could it be that a CSSC never got established because the CSA was more interested in trying to drive out the "filth that flowed down from the north" and that there was a war for national SURVIVAL being fought???

No. The confederate congress had no problems keeping the revolving door Davis cabinet fully stocked, though not a single one of those positions was required by the constitution. They didn't establish the court because they didn't want to. And the fact that their constitution required a supreme court was of no interest to them.

580 posted on 06/17/2006 11:23:56 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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