At 03:23 PM 2/29/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Recently it was point
>> out, I think by Gautam but I won't swear by it, that
>> the South supported
>> the most overwhelming pre-war abridgement of states
>> rights by the federal
>> government: the Fugitive Slave Act.
>
>Hi Dan. I did make the point about the Fugitive Slave
>Act.
O.k. Question.... wasn't the Fugitive Slave Act a logical extension of
the "full faith and credit" clause (which I believe was insisted upon
Southerns at the Constitutional Convention who were worried about slavery
in the new Union - but I could be wrong on that.) Likewise, is the
Fugitive Slave Act really an all-that-radical reinterpretation of the
"Interstate Commerce" clause, given the things that the "IC" clause has
been used for since? And likewise, without taking the time to go back and
reread my Constitution aren't there other pro-slavery positions of the
Constitution that woudl justify the Fugitive Slave Act?
JDG
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