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To: FLT-bird
In other words, it kept the status quo ante.

Except that the status quo had changed. Before it was from one state to another. Now it was from one country to another. Imports. Protected by the constitution.

That ensures a right of transit only for citizens of other confederate states. It says nothing about abolishing slavery for their own citizens.

But if citizens can come from other states and live in the state then how can the state force them to dispose of them?

They enacted emergency war measures. Lots of governments do that during wars....like for example the US government.

Emergency war measures can ignore the Constitution? Well considering the Confederates never established a Supreme Court then who was there to tell Davis and the Congress to stop doing that?

No, I provided you the quote and the source and the link to it. Feel free to look it up for yourself.

I have looked and unless I'm missing something it isn't there. How about taking a look yourself and letting me know where it is?

178 posted on 01/12/2019 10:37:09 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Except that the status quo had changed. Before it was from one state to another. Now it was from one country to another. Imports. Protected by the constitution.

The exact same region as before. Only the political boundary had changed. Status quo ante.


But if citizens can come from other states and live in the state then how can the state force them to dispose of them?

If they come to that state to live then they establish residency there and that is not covered by their transit rights.


Emergency war measures can ignore the Constitution? Well considering the Confederates never established a Supreme Court then who was there to tell Davis and the Congress to stop doing that?

The US government has certainly done that. Oh they’ll try to claim they didn’t like claiming for example that people thrown into concentration camps due to their ancestry was not a denial of due process, was not a loss of liberty and their property rights....but of course it was. Funny how you want to hold the Confederate government which was forced into a major war to preserve its independence from the start to a standard you don’t seem keen to hold the US government to.


I have looked and unless I’m missing something it isn’t there. How about taking a look yourself and letting me know where it is?

Nah. We’re not playing this game. I provided you the quote the source and the link. Feel free to do your own searching.


180 posted on 01/12/2019 11:03:46 AM PST by FLT-bird
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