To: Michael.SF.
Recall that though slavery was morally wrong, it was Constitutionally permitted. You cannot argue the Constitution both ways.I'm not.
Slavery was legal. Insurrection was never legal.
The South's constitutional breach consisted of its insurrection.
13 posted on
05/23/2008 7:42:42 AM PDT by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: wideawake
Insurrection was never legal. So then the founding fathers were criminals?
23 posted on
05/23/2008 8:41:11 AM PDT by
Michael.SF.
("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
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