Monday, January 28, 2008

The American Civil War was about state's rights

Which is why Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America prohibits states from barring or abolishing slavery.

So I guess the American Civil War was about states' rights, as long as said state supported slavery. If a Confederate state wished to abolish slavery, though... nope, nada, zilch. States didn't have any rights then.

In other words, it is written in the Confederate Constitution that the institution of slavery is more important than state's rights. So the American Civil War wasn't about slavery? Pull the other flipper, dude!

-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin

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