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by clarkmoody 4327 days ago
Ah yes, the old "states' rights are bad because slavery" chestnut.

So should we repeal the 9th and 10th Amendments?

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No. Should we repeal the 14th?

And, just to make it clear to everyone else, slavery isn't the only problem the Feds had to step in to solve. The KKK, Jim Crow, company stores, and pretty much every other type of institutionalized bigotry had to be handled at the Federal level because the local governments weren't even trying.