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To: EagleandLiberty
The south went to war to protect their rights, not to keep slaves, but to keep the federal government from getting to big.

Getting too big to do what?

8 posted on 08/05/2008 12:30:08 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

“Getting too big to do what?”

Control everything the states did - like, uh, NOW!!!

The Tenth Amendment was laid to rest - de facto - in the Civil War.


17 posted on 08/05/2008 1:59:22 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Getting too big to do what?

You find these threads quick.

It's become a game for me see what number post NS will show up on.

Your precious federal gubmint is too big and you know it, unless you're a big gubmint kinda guy, which I suspect that you are.

33 posted on 08/05/2008 4:36:15 PM PDT by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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To: Non-Sequitur

To do what it’s been doing ever since “reconstruction.”


41 posted on 08/05/2008 5:58:36 PM PDT by varina davis (Life is not a dress rehearsal)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Getting too big to do what?

The south wanted the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to be what it said in the Consitution, not increasing power!! (see my post above)

118 posted on 08/07/2008 7:39:29 AM PDT by EagleandLiberty (Psst... Serious questions Conservatives - want McCain or a Marxist in the White House?)
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