I think even more damning against the ‘states’ rights’ argument is that at least one (I stopped at finding one, lol) confederate state constitution explicitly disallowed abolishing slavery, so that state literally didn’t have the right to make their own decision on the matter down the line, lol.
I think even more damning against the ‘states’ rights’ argument is that at least one (I stopped at finding one, lol) confederate state constitution explicitly disallowed abolishing slavery, so that state literally didn’t have the right to make their own decision on the matter down the line, lol.
IIRC, there’s 2 that do that explicitly - I want to say it was Texas and North Carolina, but I can’t be bothered to double check that.