Why is it that Free Republic wants to re-fight the Civil War every other day.
Sure, the compromise was....a compromise. It worked for a while. Until it did not work.
I am still befuddled buy the number of people who think that “owning” another human being is OK; or that it was justified.
I understand it was the norm back in the day. I understand that most people have no idea about how the Constitution was written or why. No need to “educate” me about that stuff.
Why is it that Free Republic wants to re-fight the Civil War every other day.
Sure, the compromise was....a compromise. It worked for a while. Until it did not work.
The war was about more than slavery: it was also about compromising the admirable system the founders set up to the point that it doesn’t work.
And that is why the thing gets re-hashed again and again whenever people who get it encounter smart people who don’t get it but have a hope of getting it.
BTW—very apt screen name for your comment.