Sip_Tyga

Before the federal government does a nationwide ban, can we talk about their authority to do so? Banning alcohol needed an amendment, don’t they need to amend the constitution? ...

[quote]You want to make a moral claim about the South without a discussion of what their grievance in particular was. [/quote] I said the peace commission speaks for itself in that its goal was peace, I take your “sure” to be an agreement. So unless shown otherwise, I maintain it’s the case that ...

[quote]What is the fact that the South had 'peace negotiators up north' evidence of, specifically? That they were earnestly interested in avoiding war? That their concern for the potential loss of life was so great that they were asking for concessions from a stronger party without giving anything i...

[quote]You’d think someone who claims such knowledge of the Civil War would be aware of the fact Beauregard had lined Charleston with cannons to prevent a resupply of Fort Sumter. Beauregard had batteries on Morris and Sullivan Island. He had already retaken Fort Moultrie and Castle Pinkney. He ...

While there’s something to be said for the ceding of Sumter to the US, I think SC and the Confederacy recognized this, hence the offer to reimburse the US for it during peace negotiations. When SC ceded the forts to the US, the US was still an agent for the state’s defense. After SC seceded that rel...

The South fighting the civil war for slavery is at the least misleading. Where prior to the war was abolition of slavery a serious policy proposal? Slavery was talked about in the secession documents, but that was about secession, not going to war. So you could say they seceded over slavery in the D...

Legalized the use, but are hard drugs being manufactured legally? I think the idea is that it would be manufactured eventually by entities that would make it uniform and eventually in safer forms. I don’t know what would happen but it seems plausible that drug prohibition could be seen the way alcoh...

Cultural revolution won’t end until everything has been cleansed. The South is just first....

I’d prefer tariffs for revenue to income taxes, but I’m not very interested in stacking tariffs on top of income taxes. Also have to be careful that tariffs for government revenue don’t become a means to protect sectors from foreign competition no matter what, as that’s just some Americans living at...

You can read the Republican’s platform in 1860, you can read Lincoln before and during the war, you can read the congressional resolution for the reason for the war, you can read the originally proposed 13th amendment that passed in both houses, and you can read the emancipation proclamation. The no...