and regarding the csa constitution...it was quite similar to our counstitution...but it very explicitly stated that slavery would remain, and even made it illegal to ever mention changing that! of course, these were the same politicians who made it a rule that slavery was not to be brought up in the House, a rule John Quincy Adams took great delight in breaking.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln
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