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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey are not "originalist", they are Confederates
They believe State's Rights have priority of Federal Law and that it should be up to the States to interpret the Constitution for themselves. They are following the Constitution, but it's the Confederate Constitution.
bucolic_frolic
(43,641 posts)That's why we have a Constitution.
Walleye
(31,219 posts)misanthrope
(7,441 posts)they would have had to dismantle Southern culture and that task is nearly impossible. It would have required forcible removal of the population into other parts of the nation where their culture couldn't dominate.
Walleye
(31,219 posts)misanthrope
(7,441 posts)That's why Reconstruction was a failure, as I tried to say. The Confederacy was a manifestation of the dominant culture in the Deep South and Tidewater, combined with Appalachian xenophobia. It then spread westward after the Civil War.
I don't know how you stop that apart from methods I find personally repulsive for the amount of suffering and heartache they create.
Baitball Blogger
(46,829 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,212 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to oppose all laws they don't like. About as truly intellectually based as our cat's reaction to our neighbors' dogs, but they're able to dress it up in dense rhetoric.
booley
(3,855 posts)They are whatever Gets them what they want
States Rights didn't mean crap when it came to guns. Republicans certainly didnt' support States Rights when it came to allowing gay marriage, decriminalizing drugs, or right to die laws
Look at Clarence Thomas. He wants to over turn Lawrence and Obergfell and Griswold next. A court case suspiciously absent from his list? Loving v Virginia.
The conservative judges are just like conservatives in general. Its about using power to get what you want.
Mme. Defarge
(8,078 posts)firearm safety.
edhopper
(33,737 posts)the Northern Aggressors?
Mme. Defarge
(8,078 posts)but I found this ruling to be very sinister.
edhopper
(33,737 posts)and it is.
lindysalsagal
(20,836 posts)If you want to live like it's 1776, buy a dark cabin in the woods nd go the eff away. Oh, and, btw-You can't take your cell phone, TV, electricity or running water, either. It's firewood and candles and muskets for you.
Model35mech
(1,629 posts)It isn't even without a musket or other firearm.
Woodfires and light from oil-lamps is actually pretty nice replacing frequent electrical service interruption.
uponit7771
(90,380 posts)Saboburns
(2,807 posts)Who not only aren't fazed by The Constitution, but want to destroy it.
They spend all day, everyday actively at war with The Constitution and at War with the majority of Americans.
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