Posted on 06/04/2012 6:00:58 AM PDT by BigReb555
Do you and your family know what is considered by some folks the largest monument to an American?
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Article 4. Congress has the right to decide how a state proves its acts. Congress wasn't given this opportunity at the attempted dissolvement of the union.
SCOTUS is also the law of the land...or are you an anarchist?
They got here by boat. Portuguese if I'm not mistaken. Now, save your silly snits for somebody else. You seem reasonably computer literate, so I'll assume you to be capable of looking up further specifics on your own.
I’m not supporting slavery or trying to minimize how bad it was. Still, if slavery was a “festering cancer”, then the cure killed the patient, which we can thank for no longer living in a constitutional republic. Instead of letting the slave states go their way and be judged by God on their own, we decided that somehow, in less than a century, Americans had lost the right of self-determination, and appointed our President as a little King George. Justify that all you want, but it sure doesn’t seem moral to me.
I guess you need a sarcasm tag to know it when you see it...now, if slavery did not already exist in North America, then exactly how did all those Africand get here, on the Mayflower?
I guess you need a sarcasm tag to know it when you see it...now, if slavery did not already exist in North America, then exactly how did all those Africans get here, on the Mayflower?
You are right, I mentioned nothing about the US...however you did in your first post...”It was a black man that started slavery in the US...”
Except that - your hyperbole aside, no one “killed the patient”, we do still live in a constitutional republic, we haven’t lost the right of self-determination, and no one appointed anyone as a “little King George”.
Other than that I would tend to agree ;-)
The Jefferson Davis National Highway goes right through the heart of my town.
Reading comprehension apparently isn’t your strong suit, either.
Keep digging that hole, I’m going to enjoy seeing you get your nose rubbed in a very dumb anachronism on your part.
Someone upthread mentioned the Jefferson Davis National Highway in my home state (Washington) and I got to wondering how it came to be. It came about as a response to the Lincoln Memorial Highway. Never heard of it? Neither had I. I have two links if you are interested:
Origins of the Lincoln Memorial Highway:
http://lincolnhighway.jameslin.name/history/part1.html
Origins of the Jefferson Davis National Highway:
Named highways existed until 1926 when an ordered, numerical naming convention was implemented. The United Daughters of the Confederacy sought to extend the highway nationwide and because named highway system preceded the numbered system Highway 99 (which stretches north/south from the Canadian border to Mexico) held both identifications.
The U.D.C. sponsored the placement of markers at Blaine and Vancouver Washington - both remain although they removed the reference to Davis on the Blaine marker and the Vancouver marker was moved to a location adjacent to Interstate 5 on private property.
Actually one one state was ever a true sovereign...and it sure as hell wasn't Texas, which was a spiteful bastard child of a state from the day it was conceived.
Please go and read history before you make ignorant ststements.
The ignorance displayed on this thread until I got to your comments is truly sad.
I suppose these people would consider anyone who opposes Obama’s attempt to destroy the US as unpatriotic as well.
Truly ignorant people.
Sorry. No dice. Your quote wasn’t a quote and the intended article has nothing to do with leaving the union. Here is Article 4 as it is actually written.
“Article IV
Section 1.
Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof. “
Davis was not a cross-dresser.
We all condemn slavery today, but Jefferson Davis lived in a society in which it was both legal and recognized by th Constitution. He was a Christian man in a very different world.
Our slaves came to America, some as volunteers, from a continent of constant misery and violence. Most found Christianity because they came to America.
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