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To: Jacquerie

The flaw was that the courts allowed it.


31 posted on 10/27/2008 6:52:27 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: I got the rope

Had the framers disallowed slavery, the Constitution would have been rejected by the states. No Constitution, no USA.

Also, the states did not grant the feds the power to eradicate slavery, thus the courts could not eliminate it.


33 posted on 10/28/2008 4:08:34 AM PDT by Jacquerie (All Muslims are suspect.)
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