[DiogenesLamp]

But it's your idiotic and asinine interpretations and opinions that you claim as fact that makes dealing with you so amusing.

They are also your idiotic and asinine interpretations and opinions, so far as the Confederate Constitution is concerned.

If free states aren't explicitly allowed, then the document cannot be interpreted as allowing them.

*YOUR INTERPRETATION!*

Your shoe put on your foot.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "If free states aren't explicitly allowed, then the document cannot be interpreted as allowing them.
*YOUR INTERPRETATION!*"

Clearly the Confederate constitution might contemplate non-slave states, but only if they agreed to Confederate preconditions:

1. No laws against slavery
2. No restrictions on slaveholders' travel & sojourns
3. No opposition to slavery in Confederate territories.

So, which non-slaveholding Union states might agree to such terms?