(April 8, 2016 at 1:51 am)Cato Wrote:You overlooked that article about slavery being the law of the land. They kept it enforced by passing such things as the Fugitive Slave Act. It basically put bounties on all black people wherever they were in America or the territories. Sounds like a police state to me.(April 8, 2016 at 1:36 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: America was founded as a police state. It's in the Constitution.
Show me.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charter...cript.html
Article IV. Section 2 = No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/topic...on-of-1798
Georgia Constitution 1798 Article IV Section 11 = "Section 11. There shall be no future importation of slaves into this State, from Africa or any foreign place, after the first day of October next. The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of each of the respective owners, previous to such emancipation. They shall have no power to prevent emigrants from either of the United States to this State from bringing with them such persons as may be deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_S...ct_of_1850
http://felonvoting.procon.org/sourcefile...tution.pdf
Texas Constitution 1845 Article VIII Slaves =ARTICLE VIII. SLAVES.
SECTION 1.
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constituti...xas1861/a8
Texas Constitution 1861 Article VIII Slaves =
You can't have legal slavery and Jim Crow laws unless you have a police state. America was established as a police state and still functions as one.
