@GordianFrost@JonahDispatch I guess my point is that while their states’ sovereignty perhaps had some importance to them, slavery had even more.
At any rate, appreciate the thoughtful discourse (X needs more of it and less of the profanity and vitriol).
@GordianFrost@JonahDispatch No doubt it would. And it would likewise be disingenuous to say that, due to their perception of a growing federal encroachment on, say, the use of ostrich’s as draft animals, that the south would have seceded because they wanted to preserve the sovereignty of the states.
@GordianFrost@JonahDispatch Then why did they stipulate in their new constitution that no state in their new nation could ever choose to abolish slavery within its own state? Weren’t the states supposed to be sovereign?
@NiallMc10@3YearLetterman@piersmorgan Does it really matter where his stepfather was from? Regardless, America didn’t win independence from England, it won it from the Kingdom of Great Britain. That included Wales.
@DerUntermutt@mrmenger@JonahDispatch Perhaps not free market in the strictest sense since yes, there were geopolitics involved. But free in that a group of nations pursued their best interests without coercing some other nation. Or ripping Russia’s oil supply off.