Posted on 05/16/2009 1:10:03 PM PDT by trek
bump
If you will permit me to elaborate on my own post let me cast this argument in a somewhat more palatable form.
Imagine that the history of the United States was just one long episode of the Simpsons. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention from places like South Carolina who insisted that the question of slavery be deferred (e.g. folks like Pierce Butler, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Rutledge, etc.) would be seen in heaven in 1863 pounding their heads against the wall going:
DOH! DOH! DOH! DOH! ....
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