(June 24, 2015 at 9:03 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Oddly, that seems to be the version of the Constitution that the republicunts prefer. They would gladly drag us back to it.
Yeah, I was only answering a request for clarification, not mounting an argument for anachronism.
(June 24, 2015 at 9:03 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Your point is otherwise well taken. The south was resisting change which promised to diminish its importance but the Industrial Revolution was already taking that out of their hands.
If you'll pardon the pun, I certainly cotton to Catton's analysis of the war being between not just two social orders, but between two eras.
