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To: Non-Sequitur
For all we know Davis spoke against the court or mentioned the real Supreme Court.

As I noted previously, the index to Davis' collected works found online specifically identifies them as the Confederate States supreme court. Thus he could NOT have been talking about the yankee one. As for talking against the court, that is an unreasonable and unfounded assumption for you to make. While one cannot say with certainty that all of those documents advocated it absent a trip to the library to check, one can say that it is more likely than not based upon the fact that he does exactly that in the written record we DO know of right now.

The only quote you have provided is a gratuitous

Nonsense. It is about as explicit as one can get, and to date you have provided absolutely ZERO evidence as to why we should not believe it.

and no doubt insincere

Evidence please?

And he never mentioned the matter to the congress again.

Evidence please? For all you know, one of those 8 other documents could very well have been a letter to Congress.

748 posted on 11/22/2003 7:39:03 PM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
As for talking against the court, that is an unreasonable and unfounded assumption for you to make.

Why? This is the man who said that so long as a law achieved its objective then it was constitutional. He saw no need for a supreme court, never fought for a supreme court, why should we believe he spoke in favor of one in any of the references you claim he made.

It is about as explicit as one can get, and to date you have provided absolutely ZERO evidence as to why we should not believe it.

And you have provided absolutely ZERO evidence why we should. He did nothing to promote the court in the Senate, never once mentioned it in any further messages to congress, let the matter wither and die on the vine, just like he wanted it to.

Evidence please? For all you know, one of those 8 other documents could very well have been a letter to Congress.

Here are the Journals of the confederate congress. Davis messages are there. There isn't any other reference to the court in any other message from Davis that I've been able to find. Have at it.

755 posted on 11/23/2003 4:12:26 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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