Agree totally!
You wouldn't believe the crap that was in college American History book!
The democrats were the slaveholding party of the confederacy and kept blacks down for 100 years after the civil war to boot.
How the democrats get 90% of the black vote is a testament to brilliant propganda on their part and incomptence on the GOP's.
There is a lesson to be learned and heres hoping the same mistake won't be made with the Hispanics.
However this is not to say that the Union went to war to end slavery. Though Lincoln,, being a moderate abolitionist wanted an end to slavery, he understood that the majority of the North would not fight to end negro servitude. Some say the Fort Sumter attack by Confederate forces did more to doom the secession than anything else, as images of the flag being fired upon appeared all over the North, enflaming the population into a war for Union.It was only after groundwork had been laid, and the fear of European intervention grew that slavery took on a major role in the Union's war. Many scholars believe that the Emancipation Proclamation did not change the war aim of Lincoln which was Union. It was a means to that end by attacking Southern economic life and debilitating its war effort through encouraging slaves to escape to Northern territory. It also forced abolitionists to continue to support the war as the only way of ending slavery in America
. Many abolitionists, unhappy with Lincoln, were increasingly interested in allowing the slave owning South to go its own way to remove the stain of slavery from the United States. They were nowhere convinced that Lincoln, until the Proclamation, would reallly end slavery. And as a footnote, Lincoln, even during the war, believed that only a change in the Constitution could end slavery legally. His action was as military commander seeking to damage the war making capability of the rebels. That is one reason it applied to the states in rebellion and not Kentucky etc. Another of course ws fear those states would seek to secede as well.
Article VI notes that "Judges in every State" will be bound by oath to support the "Law of the Land" and its Amendments, - which protect the minority from the majority.
(2) the judiciary's primary purpose is to review and correct the acts of Congress and the presidency
Nope, it's to support the Constitution, -- establish justice, -- and convey the blessings of individual liberties to the people. [see the Preamble]
(1) the Founding Fathers were atheists, agnostics, and deists;
Some were, some weren't. -- But no "religious Test shall ever be required" to hold office in the USA. [Art. VI]
(2) the Founders wrote into the Constitution a strict separation of church and state that requires the exclusion of religious influences and expressions from the public arena.
Not true. -- "In god we trust".
(1) the secession of the southern states at the start of the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery;
Not true. It had become clear that individual liberty and the institution of slavery could no longer coexist.
(2) slavery was not a significant issue in the conflict.
It was made clear after the conflict that individual rights to life, liberty, or property were a significant issue, -- by the 14th amendment .
The South fought the Civil War to Defend Slavery
Source: The Savannah Republican
Published: March, 1861 Author: Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens
Posted on 03/20/2001 15:07:03 PST by santafetrail
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I believe that this is inaccurate. The platform called for the making and enforcement of laws prohibiting the spread of slavery into the territories. Everybody at the time was generally agreed that only a state legislature or a constitutional amendment could end slavery within a state.
Notice the red states / blue states electoral breakdown among the states nowadays? Is the South not ready to take charge of its own destiny once again? 2 catalysts that I foresee playing a role:
*President Clinton returns to the White House in 2008;
*The national debt keeps reaching record levels even as baby boomers are about to retire in droves:
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm
Don't you just love it when a newspaper actually lets a little truth slip through the cracks? See "Black Confederate Protests Klan" in September 7, 2006 Emmitsburg Dispatch.
http://www.emmitsburgdispatch.com/2006/September/Issue1/TED_Sept7_06Pg3.pdf