I’d bet there were (are) a lot who would have agreed with J.W.Booths words,if not his actions.
That's a comment unworthy of FreeRepublic and more suitable for DU.
You so conveniently forget that slavery was legal under the Constitution and some of the Founders were slave-owners.
I believe Thomas Jefferson was a prominent one,yet we quote Jefferson's views on many other points of freedom.The ownership of arms comes to mind.(Which I would be surprised if Jefferson promoted amongst his slaves!)
NOT saying slavery ever was a good thing but it was a part of early America.
The Southerners feared,and I believe rightly, that they were going to be deprived of their legal property without compensation.And they were.
Far better and cheaper it would have been had the abolitionists passed a law declaring the end of slavery in the United States with the provision that slave owners would receive fair compensation.I think the Southerners fought as much against the arrogance of the bog city self-righteous New Englanders as anything. And just who built most of the ships anyway.
The issue of “ex post facto” laws is addressed in the Constitution,I think.
Declaring a heretofore legal activity suddenly illegal and confistcating the property related without payment is itself unethical.
Senator Feinstein would like to confiscate,no doubt without payment, all firearms from private citizens.Various political entities have taken the home of one person and awarded the property to another on the premise the new “owner” will pay higher taxes.And then the new business fails anyway so the original person is deprived of their property AND the government ends up with less money as well.
Be very careful about using the giant club of the government to force YOUR wishes.
I will continue to hold my opinions and criticize or praise actors of the political stage here on FR regardless of your opinions.
If you feel strongly enough then you are free to request Mr. Robinson or the moderators ban me and all those who dare disagree with you.
It has been said that the constitution of the Soviet Union was the first to recognize explicitly the legal right of secession in a modern state. Strictly speaking this is true. Article 17 of the Soviet Constitution declares that “the right freely to secede from the U.S.S.R. is reserved to every Union republic.” A right of secession was not written into the U.S. Constitution ...
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Livingston is a Philosophy Professor at Emory. It's sad that he spends his time on stuff like this, but I guess that too much philosophy can do that to people.