dagblog - Comments for "ROSEWOOD & THE BADGE OF SLAVERY"

It's not about erasing

seashell — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:00:19 +0000

In reply to I found this comment late,

It's not about erasing slavery that had them pooping their pants. It's that the 14th applies to the states, whereas till then the first 13 amendments only applied to the Federal government. So the states were then forced to accept the 13th and soon the 15th amendments.

Then it's about slavery. Prior to the Civil War, it was all about slavery.

It took me awhile to figure it out.

the person claims the south

Decader — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:50:23 +0000

In reply to I found this comment late,

the person claims the south was hypocritical about States' Rights. I note that New York not upholding the South's rights to slaves was not hypocrisy - it was a given right in the constitution. Immoral, assuredly, but an enumerated right.

States Rights refers to rights not enumerated falling back to the states. This one is enumerated.

13-15 amendments came later, are immaterial. Though I must say that amendments passed when you're under military occupation may not bring as much cooperation as amendments you agreed to of your own volition.

I found this comment late,

Richard Day — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:20:42 +0000

In reply to "States' rights" is about

I found this comment late, after it disapeared from the boards so to speak.

I am having some trouble finding the sense in all of this.

I mean the 13th and the 14th and the 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution erased those badges of slavery. The original Paragraphs of the Constitution said:

The three-fifths compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution:

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Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.