No. These United States were formed from a contract (the Constitution). The basis for understanding a contract's terms come from accepted legal language used at the time of the contract's creation. In the case of the 18th Century, English Common Law reigned as the basis for our legal...
*shrug* I guess it depends on your perspective. The Civil War Amendments were ratified and put into the Constitution in an unconstitutional manner and in reality they are void. Yet, the American legal system has deemed them "Constitutional." So do we put our trust in "the system", or put our...
Lol wut?
I fail to see the point of your post. Spooner makes an excellent case on why slavery was never Constitutional. You did nothing to refute that.
Next.
Can't handle information that isn't in easily digestible sound bytes? You post clearly shows a bias against the essay without having actually read it, legitamately skim it, or even know anything about it.
If you can at least wrap your brain around chapter VIII, you'd have a decent grasp on...
You obviously have never read the Constitution. Otherwise you'd know that slavery was never authorized.
http://www.lysanderspooner.org/UnconstitutionalityOfSlaveryContents.htm
I don't see what the big deal is. All this talk of balancing budgets and surpluses is draconian. Our current regime has it correct: deficets don't matter. Saving is what got us into this mess in the first place. If anything, the federal government needs to spend trillions more.
The Messiah is correct. We need billions of more money pumped into a system that hasn't worked for almost a century. I'm waiting for the day when the federal beaucrats completely take over education. Get those pesky parents and local school baords out of the way.
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