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To: JeffersonDavis
Let me clarify, it doesn't matter who was right constitutionally... the South were agressors and abusers of their fellow human beings and therefore deserved to be crushed. Wow! There's a radical thought on a conservative forum! The Constitution is not an end unto itself! It's certainly not on par with the Bible (although many seem to think so). And I consider myself a constitutionalist.
202 posted on 05/03/2002 9:08:42 PM PDT by streetpreacher
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To: streetpreacher
Let me clarify, it doesn't matter who was right constitutionally... the South were agressors and abusers of their fellow human beings and therefore deserved to be crushed.

While we are clarifying, the south slave owners bought their slaves from northern slave traders on wall street where they were auctioned/traded. Hence Wall Street.

206 posted on 05/03/2002 9:30:16 PM PDT by takenoprisoner
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To: streetpreacher
Let me clarify, it doesn't matter who was right constitutionally... And I consider myself a constitutionalist.

Yeah, and I'll bet Bill Clinton considers himself an honest man. :-/

213 posted on 05/03/2002 9:46:39 PM PDT by Mark Bahner
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To: streetpreacher; one2many
Let me clarify, it doesn't matter who was right constitutionally..

Oh, hell, if that's the case, let's just throw it right out!! Why do we even bother with the thing? Even Walt will try to use some Constitutional argument but you just don't even care!! As long as the cause is just, that justifies the end?

I just can't argue with that. I'm sorry. I don't have a response because there isn't one. LOL!! One2many, that's was lincoln's new reason for the war. Just because.

Works for me!! < /sarcasm>

215 posted on 05/03/2002 9:54:30 PM PDT by billbears
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To: streetpreacher
Let me clarify, it doesn't matter who was right constitutionally... the South were agressors and abusers of their fellow human beings and therefore deserved to be crushed.

That is pretty much what X said. But do you see the problem with your statement? Every time someone comes along and makes a moral beef with someone else, you'll be ready to suspend the Constitution and take your shirt off.

At what point will you begin to suspect that the guys making the moral issues are really just trying to beat the Constitution and have their way regardless? This has happened twice now -- during the Civil War and again during the Civil Rights Movement. Raise a moral claim and Poof! My rights are supposed to disappear, because now I'm a Bad Person. That way lies the rule of the strongest arm.

235 posted on 05/04/2002 4:05:29 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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