In the early 50s, at about age 12, I moved from Virginia to a small town in Florida long infamous for racism and a race war. I was beaten up in the town square in front of the fire station, plenty of onlookers, as a ' n----er lover'. Some years later I went to college in Boston where I was treated a bit as the opposite. I have lived both sides of that dustup and I paid my dues.
I choose to avoid the 'arguments' and try to stick to the objective truths - as much as possible.
I am a firm believer in states rights as it was the states that created the federal government rather than the reverse.
On the other hand, I am absolutely and unalterably opposed to slavery in all its forms. Whether chattel, penal, or mental, slavery is utterly evil.
James Madison wrote, “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.”
I think that Mr. Madison would be dismayed to see how his great work, the US Constitution has been misused and misinterpreted.
I think we need a Congress of the States to reign in the Federal Government. The implied powers of the Federal government needs to be sharply curtailed.
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)