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To: stand watie
the amendment would have made slavery PERMANENT & protected by the Constitution.

However, any state would have been able to end slavery on its own. As Lincoln said in his first inaugural, the Corwin amendment only made explicit the idea that slavery was a state matter implicit in the Constitution ("holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable."). What made the Corwin amemdment acceptable and the Crittenden compromise unacceptable is that the latter also guaranteed slavery in the territories. But just to understand your position better, are you saying that slavery WAS a matter for the federal government over the states, or do you agree with Lincoln's position?

So, are we going to hear from your friend about that Yankees burning the Alexandria synagogue? I can't wait to forward the information to the congregation and tell them that they have their own history wrong.

134 posted on 04/30/2007 2:59:57 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
laughing AT you, TROLL.

you've PERMANENTLY ruined YOURSELF & nothing that you post is BELIEVED by anybody here, with the possible exception of "The STUPID Club"; the club members will believe ANYTHING.

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147 posted on 05/01/2007 7:59:27 AM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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