Politeia
12-27-2007, 12:19 PM
Great article on LRC elucidating all the brouhaha:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/murphy/murphy130.html
It hadn't occurred to me that the "Civil" War was, among many other crimes, a violation of the Fifth Amendment's prohibition of government taking property without compensation. Before anybody gets their blood pressure up, just consider: if the war was really about freeing the slaves (which, of course, it was not), the same thing could have been accomplished much cheaper in money, property, and (not least) lives, by the gummint simply buying the slaves and freeing them. Instead, it took them by armed robbery and kept them in bondage (no American of any color has been free since 1865).
http://www.lewrockwell.com/murphy/murphy130.html
It hadn't occurred to me that the "Civil" War was, among many other crimes, a violation of the Fifth Amendment's prohibition of government taking property without compensation. Before anybody gets their blood pressure up, just consider: if the war was really about freeing the slaves (which, of course, it was not), the same thing could have been accomplished much cheaper in money, property, and (not least) lives, by the gummint simply buying the slaves and freeing them. Instead, it took them by armed robbery and kept them in bondage (no American of any color has been free since 1865).