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To: Non-Sequitur; TonyRo76; LS
Authoritarian government? Until they walked out the South pretty much ran the government. If it was authoriarian then weren't they responsible?

Everyone interested in the Civil war should also check out the section on Southern Big Government in LS's "A Patriot's History of the United States." A real eye-opener...the Confederate government was pretty much running the entire economy down to the smallest detail.

175 posted on 05/24/2007 7:32:09 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (A pacifist sees no distinction between the arsonist and the fireman--Freeper ccmay)
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To: Mr. Silverback

“A real eye-opener...the Confederate government was pretty much running the entire economy down to the smallest detail.”

True, but the North was run the same way during the war.


180 posted on 05/24/2007 7:33:05 AM PDT by FredHunter08 (Guiliani! Come and Take Them!)
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Southerners also forget they had a built-in advantage in the Constitution of counting 3 out of every 5 slaves for representation. Imagine that if, say, Texas could do that today with illegals!


229 posted on 05/24/2007 7:57:17 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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