Brutal: D.C. Circuit upholds ObamaCare mandate — in opinion authored by Reagan appointee

The Constitution specifically refers to them as Person. It never refers to them as property.

A person HELD to Service and Labour cannot, by the very description, be anything other than a slave. Whether permanently or by the means of indentured servitude.

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He was regarded and owned in every State in the Union as property merely, and as such was not and could not be a party or an actor, much less a peer in any compact or form of government established by the States or the United States.

Which is correct. [Nice attempt to change the debate with the Roe vs Wade comment, BTW]

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To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization

You can't be serious. First you say citizen isn't defined, then try to defend it with a clause that doesn't even contain the words citizen OR define?

LOL!

Making a uniform rule for the States to follow concerning turning foreigner into citizens is TOTALLY different than trying to wave a magic wand and saying 'poof!' You're a citizen.

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The court declares the Northwest Ordinance and Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

They were. Madison himself said the Northwest Ordinance was based on the fact the federal government could not exert a greater authority over the territories than it exerted over the States.

With respect to what has taken place in the N. W. Territory, it may be observed, that the ordinance giving its distinctive character on the Subject of Slaveholding proceeded from the old Congress, acting, with the best intentions, but under a charter which contains no shadow of the authority exercised. And it remains to be decided how far the States formed within that Territory & admitted into the Union, are on a different footing from its other members, as to their legislative sovereignty.
James Madison to Robert Walsh 27 Nov. 1819

It would follow that if the first were unconstitutional, so would the second.

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and famously said that Jefferson's idea (in the United States Declaration of Independence) that "all men are created equal" was not a "self-evident truth" but instead "is nothing more to me than a self-evident lie."

Um. Because he's entitled to his own opinion?

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But it is too clear for dispute, that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included, and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this declaration; for if the language, as understood in that day, would embrace them, the conduct of the distinguished men who framed the Declaration of Independence would have been utterly and flagrantly inconsistent with the principles they asserted;

Also true. Otherwise they would not have made the distinction between 'persons' in the manner that they did.

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Lincoln likewise stated:

I really don't give a rat's pattootee what Lincoln said.

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If you want to hang out with Pettit, Taney and the rest of the Pro-Slavery crowd

What IS it with you people that can't tell the difference between someone saying slavery is a good thing and someone stating the FACT that slavery was legal before we were even a country and the way it was eradicated was not only totally constitutional, but the consequential actions is exactly WHY the government owns us?

Are you really that incapable of thinking for yourself?

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