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Originally Posted by Guest
You talked of abolishing slavery, at the SAME time, states rights were stripped. Lincoln did both. Ask the southern states about "rights". The knife just gets twisted a bit with each election. As each ADDS to the authority of the federal government.
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Reading comprehension challenged???? I said no such thing. I said the debate over the original constitution included slavery and UPHOLDING state's rights, not stripping them. I wouldn't view preserving the union, as Lincoln did, as "stripping" state's rights, there is no point of allowing a state the "right" to secede from the union. After all, federal law does trump state law. The problem has been the proliferation and scope of federal law. Yes, there were dribs and drabs of federal power grab along the way, but it did not kick into high gear until FDR