Here's The Shameless Defense Of Slavery Under The Confederate Constitution

[eniwetok]

Anyone ever read the Confederate Constitution? Probably not. But it is shameless in its defense of slavery... and those who fly the stars and bars probably don't know it. This is a comparison of the US vs the Confederate Constitution...

http://jjmccullough.com/CSA.htm Some highlights... and from various articles...

No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.


The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.


The Confederate States may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several Sates [sic]; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected be Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.

[Marcuse]

1. States' Rights? Really.

Each of the Confederate States passed a Declaration of Secession detailing the reasons therefore. Mississippi had one of the more straightforward.

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.


http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_missec.asp

[eniwetok]

2. a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization

Can't be much of a "civilization" if it depends on slavery. It just proves that people can rationalize away anything.

BTW... I've had to use those secession declaration in debates with libertarians... many who buy into the lie that secession had NOTHING to do with slavery.