RE: Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America
August 18, 2017 at 3:27 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2017 at 3:30 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 18, 2017 at 2:54 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Actually I don't really care that much. The South lost the war and it is a bit odd such memorials even exist in the first place. I just don't like iconoclastic movements and the pretense that our generation has the right to deprive future generations of cultural artifacts by destroying them or removing them from their site specific context.
Why is a park more appropriate than a museum?
(August 18, 2017 at 3:02 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote:(August 18, 2017 at 10:46 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: If the war was about states' rights, why didn't the rebels first overthrow their own government for abrogating those rights in these clauses?
Also why was the confederate constitution far more restrictive on states' rights than the original one.
That was exactly my point, yes.
(August 18, 2017 at 3:02 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: As well as the permanent slavery thing, there were quite a few taxes that the states would have to collect on behalf of the confederacy, and the confederacy had full control over regulating all sea and riverine transport. At the time these were all responsibilities of individual states in the Union
Indeed. The only state's right being fought over was the right of these states to secede because they wanted to maintain institutional slavery.
