Civil War History - Secession and PoliticsWas it Slavery, or was it States Rights? Perhaps it was the election of Lincoln? What were the real reasons for Southern Secession and what were the political issues in this time of war? Find your answers here in the Secession and Politics Disussion.
Mobile Boy:
Matthew didn't say "large amounts of slaves." Just that there was an illegal trade going on.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
[If] The Confederacy was the party that wanted a return to the Constitution. Why then would they rewrite it?
Why would they rewrite it?
To close loopholes that had resulted in the feds assuming undelegated powers. To tighten the reins on the federal government and clarify issues that had proved to be arguable in the original.
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Originally Posted by ole
I'd think that, If the CSA was so concerned with the constitution that it would honor that document by its adherence to their interpretation of it.
Ole
And to ensure the safety of the institution of slavery.
(To beat an already desperately sore horse to death.)
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
I thought I wrote that horse's obituary a couple years ago?
The reports of its demise were greatly exaggerated.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
To close loopholes that had resulted in the feds assuming undelegated powers. To tighten the reins on the federal government and clarify issues that had proved to be arguable in the original.
Which loopholes would those be, other than slavery?
And could you tell me why the Confederacy never appointed anyone at all to the Supreme Court bench? Why even bother to include that section if you didn't want to have a court system?
And could you tell me why the Confederacy never appointed anyone at all to the Supreme Court bench? Why even bother to include that section if you didn't want to have a court system?
I realize this doesn't apply to me and that you still await an answer from Battalion. My take is that they figured that, being invariably correct in their thinking, they would have no need of interference by jurists.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
I realize this doesn't apply to me and that you still await an answer from Battalion. My take is that they figured that, being invariably correct in their thinking, they would have no need of interference by jurists.
Ole
Since no one else has stepped up, the most commonly given reason was that the states didn't want a court system at the national level telling them what they could do. In 1863 the Confederate Congress considered the issue of nominating Supreme Court Justices, and the states objected, saying the individual state supreme courts should not be superceded by a national Supreme Court. Lower Confederate courts were established, but a state supreme court could overrule any of their decisions.
As an aside, but please indulge me, did the CSA Constitution specify a CSA Supreme Court?
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
The judicial power of the Confederate States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish. The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
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