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Old 10-17-2014, 06:50 AM
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Originally Posted by donquixote99 View Post
The revolutionary stuff in the Declaration of Independence was the assertion that government was the possession of the people, not the other way around, and that they could change it. And no, it was never law, and under that law that existed it was utterly illegal. But law isn't everything.

The founders took some big, liberal steps. It's wrong to damn them because they didn't take more.
The only reason the northern colonists agreed to slavery was that they knew they must hang together or they would hang separately. With Spain to the south, France close by and Britain to the north and west.

Gouverneur Morris of PA called slavery an abomination before God. But the southerners could not get any white men to gather the indigo from the swamplands. Cotton plantations came later.
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