Posted on 05/29/2019 3:06:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
“Interesting article but the author forgot to mention the rampant slavery that flourished in the Oriental countries. Slavery and servitude was the rule, not the exception.”
Prof. Williams is attempting to point out how certain “power brokers” in government attempt to defeat the system by referring to use of “cards”, in this case, the “3/5’s Slavery card”. Had slave states been given full person status for the slaves, their representation in congress would have dominated all legislation, in effect forcing the non-slave states to bend to their will. It was either compromise and have a constitutional republic instead of a monarchy/dictatorship, or a bunch of self-involved state governments going at each other. The citizens of the colonies had already endured monarchial government, in fact just won a war of independence from said monarchy.
Currently, the leftist movements are trending towards granting Electoral College votes to the popular vote winner. Essentially, they will grant the right to vote to an enormous number of non-citizens, thusly jacking up the number of popular votes for the leftist candidate who promises them the most goodies and freebies. This will have the effect of nullifying a tremendous number of legal citizen’s votes in the sparsely populated regions of the country who still honor the Electoral College.
Instead of acting like the union that we are supposed to be, several of the states are trying to nullify the union by going their separate ways regarding voting just so they can get the socialist/marxists elected and effect extremely radical change on the country. As he said “merely a convenient moral posturing tool they use in their attempt to reduce respect for our Constitution”.
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you… it just might turn the knob that does you in! Suppose, in those states going for popular count that Trump is able to make the biggest and best promises of goodies and freebies, and further imagine the popular vote going his way in those states! Wouldn’t that be something? What are the odds that morons and idiots in those states would take the free shhh...tuff he offers them?
Then, not only does your population lose the election... they’re also stuck with the large number of illegal immigrants now occupying your home-sweet-home that will need to be fed and taken care of. Just imagine the taxes that will be required to pull off that feat!
Why is it that Free Republic wants to re-fight the Civil War every other day.
Sure, the compromise was....a compromise. It worked for a while. Until it did not work.
The war was about more than slavery: it was also about compromising the admirable system the founders set up to the point that it doesn’t work.
And that is why the thing gets re-hashed again and again whenever people who get it encounter smart people who don’t get it but have a hope of getting it.
BTW—very apt screen name for your comment.
Serf is the Norman French word for slave.
Excellent article, Kaslin.
Unfortunately, our public school system no longer teaches history, at least, not accurate history.
“Human beings are not dogs.”
Funny, Muzzys treat Christians like dogs...just not in Christian countries....until they outnumber Christians..
Oh, I’ve read and understand the arguments.
And to put it plainly, the south got it ass kicked. So, their arguments are moot.
The North won—for good or bad.
But it was 200 years ago. Slaves don’t exist here any more. Lets accept that its a settled point and move on.
William WilberforceBasically, Christians ended slavery, long, long after the New Testament was written.Christians, especially protestant Christians - and especially British Protestant Christians, caused the abolition of slavery. See Part II of Black Rednecks and White Liberals.
American southerners were simply uniquely situated (among Christians) to be the last to get the word.
“Who ended slavery? The United States.”
The USA was a latecomer to abolition.
Pardon the citation from Rooters but they do have a good article on the topic:
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-slavery/chronology-who-banned-slavery-when-idUSL1561464920070322
Nikita Khrushchev said to us in the 50’s, “We will bury you from within.”
I think we are now seeing how.
Who started it????
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-role-of-islam-in-african-slavery-44532
Later they moved on to capturing and enslaving Europeans and then Americans by attacking their ships.
The Marine hymn has “from the shores of Tripoli”. It is there for a good reason.
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