To: warchild9
Well, Southerners evidently felt that a person's lack of citizenship, I mean being a slave, could be defended at gunpoint. So why not the acquisition or maintenance of citizenship?
To: republicanwizard
Arguing about slavery is a red herring, as irrelevant as arguments about Lincoln's sexual preferences.
An appropriate contemporary argument would concern the meaning of citizenship, and whether politicians, for whatever reason, have a right to maintain their power over others using force, and whether the Constitution as a contract concedes adherence to the Union under threat of death.
To: republicanwizard
Well, maybe they were better off than they were in Africa....but of course a enlightened Neo-Yank like yourself wouldn't consider that possibility.
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