[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Does that mean the United States is a nation of rapists and murderers?>>

That has to be stupid as hell. Rape and murder was illegal on the state level. Slavery was encouraged--in fact 11 states decided to burn themselves to the ground rather than give it up.

The evil stupidity of the true sons of the slave rapers never ceases to amaze me.

[stainlessbanner]

You need to divorce secession and slavery, then the piece will make sense.

[babyface00]

That has to be stupid as hell. Rape and murder was illegal on the state level. Slavery was encouraged--in fact 11 states decided to burn themselves to the ground rather than give it up.

The evil stupidity of the true sons of the slave rapers never ceases to amaze me.

There is nothing in the Constitution (which is a document solely to define the FEDERAL government) that prohibits states from making murder or rape illegal. It is a moral question, just as slavery is/was. The very fact that slavery was illegal in the states other than the 11 illustrates the flexibility inherent in the document.

Abortion is another moral question that was resolved at the state level previous to Roe v. Wade.

The fact that the Constitution left the moral question of slavery open to the states does not make the document somehow immoral, nor does it make defenders of that arrangement immoral.

Your anger is misplaced. The Constitution isn't some arbiter of morality over every facet of our lives. It only serves to define the limits of the federal government. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Vigilantcitizen]

The evil stupidity of the true sons of the slave rapers never ceases to amaze me.

So, how do you feel about the genocide and ethnic cleansing committed against the native Americans?