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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
but whether you believe that the federal government had no authority to end slavery, even by constitutional amendment.

No, it did not. That was reserved to the States, or to the People.

201 posted on 02/13/2009 4:00:22 PM PST by MamaTexan (I am NOT an administrative, collective, corporate, legal, political or public ~entity~!!!)
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To: MamaTexan
No, it did not. That was reserved to the States, or to the People.

Right, so therefore you believe that slavery should be legal on the federal level, correct? That any state should be able to restore slavery if it so desired.

210 posted on 02/13/2009 7:57:31 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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