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To: Defiant; MamaTexan
You will be called to judgment by better.

I can be judgmental, it is true...

Indeed you can as you have very adequately displayed on this thread. All emotion and no fact.

The Constitution was created by representative of the several states. It was the best deal that could be had at the time. Slavery was very much an issue even then. Most of the men in that room abhorred the very idea of slavery but recognized that it was ALREADY a deeply entrenched fact of life and had been so for a very long time. They further understood the impossibility of their trying to both settle the slavery issue and, at the same time, write a ratifiable Constitution.

We got what we got out of that effort and nothing more. Either we believe in it or we don't. If it is to be workable our leaders cannot be allowed to pick and choose what parts they wish to adhere to and ignore the parts they don't. Pointing out where that sort of thing has occurred in our history no more makes one a proponent of slavery than your loud mouth and VERY offensive manner makes you an opera singer.

205 posted on 02/13/2009 7:14:00 PM PST by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Bigun
What is it with you Southern restorationists and the claim of emotion....You're almost making me cry!

NOT. You are a crack-up.

Another one enters the arena. I am now judging you. And finding you utterly lacking in understanding of the Constitution, but not worth resuming the discussion. As you said, we have got what we have got, and what we've got is not something that can be settled by discussion. It was settled by war, and your view lost, and arguing about who was right is an exercise in mental masturbation. I refuse to be your Playgirl magazine.

207 posted on 02/13/2009 7:38:06 PM PST by Defiant (I for one welcome our new Obama Overlords.)
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