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The claims I made are obvious and without fail, it does fall under the tenth. You need to show me evidence I failed somewhere. You are doing nothing but what you usually do. The courts are right, and you are wrong. That is not logic, its bull****. It doesn't matter how many times you do it, it is always going to be a poor excuse of an argument.
The act fell and still does fall under the tenth amendment. The courting ruling that it didn't was in the interest of the union that just waged an illegal war that killed thousands of people.
Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1869)
You're missing the ultimate point of the Constitution. It was written to establish governing principles of a nation, not as an alliance between nations.
You are showing disrespect for the Constitution by saying that it basically carries the same weight as Kim Kardashian's wedding vows.
My opinion is an informed opinion, but since you disagree with it, you call it political correctness and since LMR disagrees with it, he tries to make it a regional issue (even though many people in his region agree with me).
The problem with both of you is that you are denying the flags history and only taking into account it's present meaning to many Southerners. I take both into account recognizing that it still retains it's history while also taking on the new meanings Southerners have given it over time.
But that's the thing. Those who fly the Confederate flag today are Americans. They are living in one country and flying the flag of another.
Yeah... and screw those mexicans for doing it too....
A little thing I like to call history.Please, tell us where you got your information from.
The folks living in the Confederate States were Americans, too.
Utterly amazing that the US Supreme Court - the official body whose legal opinion counts - disagreed with you on both of your claims. Imagine that!
The act fell and still does fall under the tenth amendment. The courting ruling that it didn't was in the interest of the union that just waged an illegal war that killed thousands of people.
Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1869)
Check the date on that.....
The ruling was made AFTER the U.S.A. decided to attack the C.S.A. in order to preserve the union.
Check the date on that.....
The ruling was made AFTER the U.S.A. decided to attack the C.S.A. in order to preserve the union.
Do you feel that repeating the same fallacy over and over again will some how make it true? You've been asked several times to give evidence that the US Constitution prohibits secession, and you have not. The fact is, you can't because no such wording exists in the Constitution. If you were to dig a bit deeper, which requires truth-seeking (for which you seem to have an aversion), you would find that the Founders actually voted on the issue of whether or not to include the words "perpetual union" in the Constitution, not suprisingly, they voted it down. What we are left with is a Constitution which does not expressly prohibit secession.Correction. The USA didnt attack the csa. the csa never existed. They attacked insurgents within in the usa. Secession is prohibited by the constitution and therefore the csa was never recognized.
Correction. The USA didnt attack the csa. the csa never existed. They attacked insurgents within in the usa. Secession is prohibited by the constitution and therefore the csa was never recognized.
South Carolina fired the first shots. You can look it up.
And..... again. Prove it is prohibited by the constitution.
Actually it wasn't. My OP was about the flag being a symbol of treason waved by people who aren't traitors and the irony/stupidity of that phenomenon.
Try harder.
The claims I made are obvious and without fail, it does fall under the tenth. You need to show me evidence I failed somewhere. You are doing nothing but what you usually do. The courts are right, and you are wrong. That is not logic, its bull****. It doesn't matter how many times you do it, it is always going to be a poor excuse of an argument.
There are several threads on the Confederate flag that dance around this question.
Many people, usually, if not always, conservatives, argue in favor of the Confederate flag and the desire to fly it or place it within the public domain. Oftentimes, they refer to it as if it is merely an innocent symbol of United States history, a symbol of state's rights, a symbol of fighting against far reaching federal government and sometimes even a symbol of patriotism.
However, these arguments, to me, seem like revisionist nonsense. The Confederate flag represents treason. It was the flag of people whose actions were not based in love of their country, but in a decision to give up on their country and abandon it in order to form a new one. It was a flag flown by those who decided that they no longer wished to be a part of the United States and that they no longer wished to solve their problems while remaining Americans.
Consequently, it seems obvious to me that the Confederate flag is not one that would be flown proudly by Americans, but one that would be flown proudly by those who no longer wish to be Americans. For this reason, it seems ridiculous to allow such a flag to be present on anything belonging to or issued by the state as it represents those who want to disassociate themselves from the state. It also seems ridiculous for anyone who considers themselves a patriot to fly the flag of people who abandoned their patriotism. Am I right about all of this? If not, why not?
If so then why isn't the German flag a symbol of Jewish hate?
The Confederate flag is as treasonous as the American flag is/was. In the end the CSA did no more to the USA than what the USA did to Britain. The CSA wanted the freedom to do things as their way of life instead of how the "North" wanted to do things which was their way of life. History is written by the winners. How would the Confederate flag be viewed today if the CSA won their bid for freedom as the USA had roughly a century prior? Probably no worse or better than the German flag is currently. I've heard that the Confederate flag is a symbol of slavery. If so then why isn't the German flag a symbol of Jewish hate?
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