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[marilyn.monroe]

Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) -- I wonder if black people would be still in the fields picking cotton today if the 13th Amendment -- the one abolishing slavery -- was placed on the ballot back in 1865.
 
I wonder if Hillary Clinton would be at home baking cookies instead of serving as secretary of state if women's suffrage was put to a vote back in 1919.
 
In other words, I wonder just how far along we would be as a society if the oppressive majority held all of the legislative and judicial power over the oppressed minority, essentially yanking the teeth out of Congress and the Supreme Court As if....
 
I'm sure you've heard a lot about the gay agenda, but may not know what's in it. Here's what you do: Download a copy of the United States Constitution, read it. Everything the LGBT community wants is in there.

Though it's a bit a bit?! of a shame that the Constitution needs such victories and that history has taught us nothing.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/opinion/granderson-gay-agenda/index.html

[marilyn.monroe]

Earlier proposed Thirteenth Amendments
 
Each of two amendments proposed by the Congress would have become the Thirteenth Amendment if it had been ratified when originally proposed.
 Titles of Nobility Amendment, proposed by the Congress in 1810 and ratified by twelve states, would have revoked the citizenship of anyone either (1) accepting a foreign title of nobility or (2) accepting any foreign payment without Congressional authorization.
 The Corwin Amendment was passed by the House on March 1, 1861 and the Senate on March 3, 1861. President Buchanan signed it the same day, which was also his last full day in office; it was later ratified by three states: Ohio, Maryland and Illinois.[22] This proposed amendment would have forbidden the adoption of any constitutional amendment that would have abolished or restricted slavery, or permitted the Congress to do so. This proposal was an unsuccessful attempt to persuade the Southern states not to secede from the Union.
 
Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, specifically referenced the Corwin Amendment:[23][24]

"I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution . . . has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

http://www.upa.pdx.edu/IMS/currentprojects/TAHv3/Content/PDFs/Civil_War_Secessions.pdf
The fate of many was decided by a few.
 

[lordfly]

....what?

[BigMike]

Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) -- I wonder if black people would be still in the fields picking cotton today if the 13th Amendment -- the one abolishing slavery -- was placed on the ballot back in 1865.
 
I wonder if Hillary Clinton would be at home baking cookies instead of serving as secretary of state if women's suffrage was put to a vote back in 1919.
 
In other words, I wonder just how far along we would be as a society if the oppressive majority held all of the legislative and judicial power over the oppressed minority, essentially yanking the teeth out of Congress and the Supreme Court As if....
 
I'm sure you've heard a lot about the gay agenda, but may not know what's in it. Here's what you do: Download a copy of the United States Constitution, read it. Everything the LGBT community wants is in there.

Though it's a bit a bit?! of a shame that the Constitution needs such victories and that history has taught us nothing.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/opinion/granderson-gay-agenda/index.html

Stop babbling. No one cares about your uninformed posts.

[Frenchfry]

Stop babbling. No one cares about your uninformed posts.

Obviously you care or you wouldn't have made a comment.
Your vitriol is well known and while not quite appreciated by all, I've defended your right to your opinion so you ought to understand that others are entitled to their opinions as well.