What a fascinating comparison between the two constitutions. The general absence of changes promoting states’ rights to self-government is awfully telling, especially in comparison to the significant changes entrenching slavery. Therefore Alan Light’s statement “Unfortunately that experiment in governance soon ended…before force of arms decided the issue against the American people” implies that human slaves are not people.
I think Alan Light’s complaint about “the imprisonment of opposition” refers to Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus. The comparison anticipates this specific claim in its notes on Section 9.
No changes [to the suspension of habeas corpus]. Though Confederate apologists often bemoan the fact that the Yankee tyrant Lincoln suspended habeus corpus, there was nothing to stop the president of the Confederacy from doing the exact same thing.
What a fascinating comparison between the two constitutions. The general absence of changes promoting states’ rights to self-government is awfully telling, especially in comparison to the significant changes entrenching slavery. Therefore Alan Light’s statement “Unfortunately that experiment in governance soon ended…before force of arms decided the issue against the American people” implies that human slaves are not people.
I think Alan Light’s complaint about “the imprisonment of opposition” refers to Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus. The comparison anticipates this specific claim in its notes on Section 9.
The line-item veto is interesting too.