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Are we betraying the Founders?
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Are we betraying the Founders?
Sept 18, 1850 - Pres. Millard Fillmore signed the 2nd Federal Fugitive Slave Act into law. An attempt to implement the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution, the act, at best, had serious constitutional issues. In response, as had been done under the previous act, states passed Personal Liberty Laws which nullified the federal act in practice and effect.
From the blog of Marc Kornblatt at The Times of Israel
<p>The efforts of state legislatures to oppose federal law have been varied. In sum, they show that the Supreme Court cannot dictate the distribution of power under federalism; Americans will have to keep figuring it out as we go, through political deliberation.</p>
Black history is in danger of being erased or diluted in schools across the nation, allegedly because it causes “discomfort.”