[Born to Conserve]

“...A Nation Saved...”

The Civil war marks the end of the Constitution. The Nation died. It has been decomposing ever since.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The Civil war marks the end of the Constitution. The Nation died. It has been decomposing ever since."

I don't want to really get into this conversation, but I will reply to this type of discussion only this one time. Mankind's freedom overrides anything in the 10th amendment or States rights. Our declaration of Independence outlined the role of government to protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. How can men and women in this country have ever enjoyed life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness in the chains of slavery? There are many times when the Federal government oversteps it's bounderies and I'm with you all the way in those times. But protecting the basic rights of men and women is not one of those oversteps.

The Federal government had every right to step in and tell states that slavery needed to be abolished then. Just as it did 100 years later to protect the basic human rights of blacks during the civil rights period of the 1960s.