Posted on 06/16/2014 6:04:34 PM PDT by riverss
The Corwin Amendment read as follows:
No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
The Corwin Amendment was an effort to placate the South and contain secessionist sentiment. It proposed to do three things. First, to protect slavery by giving each state the power to regulate the “domestic institutions” within its borders. This was an enticing carrot for the slave states: stay in the Union and you can keep slavery. Second, to dispossess Congress of the power to “abolish or interfere” with slavery. And third, to make itself unamendable by providing that “no amendment shall be made to the Constitution” that would undo the Corwin Amendment.
After Seward proposed the Corwin Amendment, then newly-elected President Lincoln defended the states’ right to adopt it. In his first inaugural address Lincoln declared that he had “no objection” to the Corwin Amendment, nor that it be made forever unamendable.
Although its ratification was disrupted by the Civil War, the Corwin Amendment is not actually dead. To this day, it lies dormant, ready to be ratified by the required number of states.
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Bless your heart.
Working at some levels in Gov. requires anti-asylum test. I past that a few times, sorry.
“that slop y’all call barbecue sauce. I hate that stuff”
Because BBQ sauce is only for Southerns, Silly.
Southerns=Southerners
This one has a ginormous chip on his shoulder.
The farce is strong in this one.
No chip just will not be around for a while so I just try to covered most of the southern stuff that usually comes up when talking with people outside the South. This is of course THE never ending story condensed. Sorry if y’all missed that.
Maybe others will be along shortly to refocus my assorted tales of the dark ages.
Horse feathers. Even most southerners I meet can differentiate between the truth and the Lost Cause revisionism you’ve been peddling.
“most southerners I meet can differentiate between the truth and the Lost Cause revisionism “
Sorry Mr. Washington State, Southern truth is something you have to mix with emotion to understand it to the degree we do down here in the deep South.
Jesus, it's been a hundred and fifty freaking years. Let it go already. You're sounding like one of those slave reparations boobs.
Kudos, you’ve managed to figure out how to look up what state someone currently lives in. Believe it or not some folks have actually lived beyond their parents backyard.
And conservatives (you might remember that this site is for conservatives) know better than to let emotion rule their lives.
Making decisions based on emotions, as opposed to logic or common sense, is something Democrats do. Speaking of which, what party were those who advocated and voted for secession in 1860/1861?
That is a D@mned clever analogy. :)
Thanks. :)
It ain’t so.
Lincoln’s interest was to keep the union together. He knew that there had been crises over slavery in the past and hoped to smooth this one over as well.
He didn’t write the amendment, he didn’t propose the amendment, and he was passive about its passage.
I don't see why there would be any confusion. Despite all of the conciliatory tone and disgusting concessions the south still continued to agitate. They wanted what they wanted even if they didn't know what they wanted. Ultimately the south wanted to tear the nation apart and would accept nothing less than total anarchy.
More than a few of them just wanted to kill themselves some yankees.
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