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Even if this BS is accepted at face value, so what?


Its the absolute and unadulterated truth, and therefore the very antithesis of "BS".

Here's the Confederate Constitution in its entireity.

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

Here's one of the authors of that document explaining the meaning of that Constitution, and the reasons for the changes from the US original.

http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~ras2777/amgov/stephens.html


And of those five Confederate States giving formal Declarations of Causes of WHY they left the Union, here they are...

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/declarationofcauses.html

Birdwatcher

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744