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Old 07-17-2009
danielpalos danielpalos is offline
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Re: Constitutional Law: "To Provide for the Common Defense and General Welfare"

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Originally Posted by daddio View Post
if you are trreferring to purchasing slave's freedom, its not that high a price tag and this was how the rest of the world handled it. Depreciation is the key.
If we had been holy and moral enough to apply eminent domain laws to the South, we would probably not have most of the racial problems we had or the Jim Crow laws that were enacted.

Simply following our own Constitution would have been better for our political-economy.
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