Why do you keep trotting out the Federalist Papers?
They are private citizen editorials that have have no force of law and are not even agreed upon opinions.
I presented VA Articles of Ratification that legally bound VA to the United States of America and its Constitution.
There is no sensible comparison as to language or binding legal effect.
I also presented the most important address Jefferson Davis ever gave to Congress to make my point about the importance of the issue of slavery to secession and you offer quotes from relative nobodies compared to Davis. He didn’t talk about tariffs or government spending or unfairness, etc.
I ask again, do you know of another historically significant elected leader that is on better authority about the origins of the Civil War than Jefferson Davis?
Why do you keep trotting out the Federalist Papers?
They are private citizen editorials that have have no force of law and are not even agreed upon opinions.
I presented VA Articles of Ratification that legally bound VA to the United States of America and its Constitution.
There is no sensible comparison as to language or binding legal effect.
Why? Because they are evidence as to the original intent of the parties. That is all that matters. I presented the VA proviso reserving the right to unilateral secession. There is no sensible argument that Virginia did not intend at the time of ratification to reserve a right to unilateral secession.
I ask again, do you know of another historically significant elected leader that is on better authority about the origins of the Civil War than Jefferson Davis?
And I presented a great deal of evidence showing that failure to enforce the fugitive slave clause of the US Constitution was merely a pretext and that the real cause was partisan sectional legislation that impoverished the Southern states while lining the pockets of Northern corporate fatcats. That is furthermore backed up by the fact that the original 7 seceding states refused to return even when offered slavery effectively forever by express constitutional amendment.