I have to side with the southern democrats when it came to trying to vote down the unconstitutional Civil Rights Act of 1964. Evidently so does Ron Paul (whose social libertarian ideology I disagree with):
“Mr. Speaker, I rise to explain my objection to H.Res. 676. I certainly join my colleagues in urging Americans to celebrate the progress this country has made in race relations. However, contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not improve race relations or enhance freedom. Instead, the forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave the federal government unprecedented power over the hiring, employee relations, and customer service practices of every business in the country. The result was a massive violation of the rights of private property and contract, which are the bedrocks of free society. The federal government has no legitimate authority to infringe on the rights of private property owners to use their property as they please and to form (or not form) contracts with terms mutually agreeable to all parties. The rights of all private property owners, even those whose actions decent people find abhorrent, must be respected if we are to maintain a free society.
This expansion of federal power was based on an erroneous interpretation of the congressional power to regulate interstate commerce. The framers of the Constitution intended the interstate commerce clause to create a free trade zone among the states, not to give the federal government regulatory power over every business that has any connection with interstate commerce.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul188.html
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957. Republican Dirksen broke the Democrat filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
Man...folks here are so ignorant at times...the hell’s fury of loss of freedom the Civil Rights act enabled and the damage it did to the black community is no cause for celebration.
Nice post.