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To: Non-Sequitur

Ft. Sumter contained foreign soldiers who were "asked" to leave.
The south legally left the union, or don't you know your constitution. Amendment 10 - "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." It seems to me that modern jurists have ignored this ammendment.

It was never about slavery. Historians know that, you should too. It was about the constitution and the right of the states.


34 posted on 10/19/2004 6:24:34 PM PDT by BS69 (A yankee who moved south)
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To: BS69
Ft. Sumter contained foreign soldiers who were "asked" to leave.

Fort Sumter contained U.S. soldiers manning their post. Why should the leave the fort when it was U.S. property?

The south legally left the union, or don't you know your constitution. Amendment 10 - "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." It seems to me that modern jurists have ignored this ammendment.

I've read it. I disagree with your contention that unilateral secession was a power reserved to the states.

It was never about slavery. Historians know that, you should too. It was about the constitution and the right of the states.

Of course not. I suppose that's why slavery was by far the single most often mentioned reason for the rebellion.

61 posted on 10/20/2004 2:28:34 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
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