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To: GOPcapitalist
Try if you might, tu quoque boy.

You do enjoy calling people 'boy', don't you? Bring back memories of happier times?

As I asked you previously, have you searched through Davis' collected works to demonstrate that he never pursued the issue?

And as I've said I've read biographies on the man and much of his endless (and incorrectly named) "A Short History of the (C)onfederate (S)tates of (A)merica" and nowhere is there anything about some noble crusade to get a supreme court seated. In fact, it passes without mention. That would seem to me to be a good indication of how little interest or regard he had towards the matter.

Once again, you can't appoint people to something that doesn't exist yet.

Or something Davis had no desire to see exist in the first place.

557 posted on 11/17/2003 10:24:17 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
You do enjoy calling people 'boy', don't you?

I have no particular inclination towards using that term in either direction. It is applicable, however, to refer to you as "tu quoque boy" from time to time, as the term provides an applicable descriptive reference to your posting behavior on this forum, to wit a tendency towards immaturity in the use of tu quoque reasoning.

And as I've said I've read biographies on the man and much of his endless (and incorrectly named) "A Short History of the (C)onfederate (S)tates of (A)merica" and nowhere is there anything about some noble crusade to get a supreme court seated.

So in other words, you have never actually checked the record itself to see if he did. Well, I have read some of the records of the Confederate Congress and within them are several mentions of the supreme court issue. As I noted previously, the senate overtly acted to block its establishment for the purpose of countering Davis' power. Now, in order for the Congress to act in this manner, would it not be the case that they were doing so because Davis was also seeking a court? It stands to reason that they were. And as I have shown you in at least one documented piece of evidence from Davis himself, he clearly and explicitly entered a request to Congress that they establish a court.

Or something Davis had no desire to see exist in the first place.

Unfortunately for your cause, the known evidence has Davis directly and explicitly stating his desire to see it created. By contrast, you have presented absolutely ZERO evidence that even so much as hints at this alleged desire of Davis to prevent a court from being appointed. In fact, such a position would defy common sense. After all, can you tell me the name of any president at any time in American history who did not desire to appoint as many of his own people to a Supreme Court as possible? You cannot because there are none, Davis included. Live with it.

559 posted on 11/17/2003 10:48:11 AM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: Non-Sequitur; GOPcapitalist
[n-s] And as I've said I've read biographies on the man and much of his endless (and incorrectly named) "A Short History of the (C)onfederate (S)tates of (A)merica"

Correctly named, "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government."

572 posted on 11/17/2003 11:47:28 PM PST by nolu chan
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