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Duppers

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30. From Wiki..
Fri May 18, 2018, 05:10 PM
May 2018
Thirteenth Amendment, passed in 1865, had already eliminated almost all persons from the original clause's jurisdiction by banning slavery; the only remaining persons subject to it were those sentenced for a crime to penal servitude, which the amendment excluded from the ban.)

After the Reconstruction Era came to an end in 1877, however, the former slave states subverted the objective of these changes by using various strategies to disenfranchise their black citizens, while obtaining the benefit of apportionment of representatives on the basis of the total populations. These measures effectively gave white Southerners even greater voting power than they had in the antebellum era, inflating the number of Southern Democrats in the House of Representatives as well as the number of votes they could exercise in the Electoral College in the election of the president.

The disenfranchisement of black citizens eventually attracted the attention of Congress, and in 1900 some members proposed stripping the South of seats, related to the number of people who were barred from voting.[11] In the end, Congress did not act to change apportionment, largely because of the power of the Southern bloc. The Southern bloc comprised Southern Democrats voted into office by white voters and constituted a powerful voting bloc in Congress until the 1960s. Their representatives, re-elected repeatedly by one-party states, controlled numerous chairmanships of important committees in both houses on the basis of seniority, giving them control over rules, budgets and important patronage projects, among other issues. Their power allowed them to defeat federal legislation against racial violence and abuses in the South.[12]


Dang!!!!


Yet the buybull has many passages about the rights of slave owners and commandments for slaves. The religious southern states used those to their advantage.




That's great. My great to the seventh grandfather signed the book on the right WhiteTara May 2018 #1
That's quite the pedigree! kag May 2018 #4
I'm from the Morris clan of Tinturn at Monmouthshire Wales WhiteTara May 2018 #34
hearing something like this really brings the history alive rurallib May 2018 #7
Me too - my 7th great grandfather BuddhaGirl May 2018 #10
We are quite a prestigious group! Maraya1969 May 2018 #27
Wasn't Alexander Hamilton Washington's aide-de-camp? hedda_foil May 2018 #31
Washington had many of them BuddhaGirl May 2018 #39
Thanks,BuddhaGirl. That's fascinating. hedda_foil May 2018 #43
Really? My uncle raised money for the army. WhiteTara May 2018 #32
Interesting! BuddhaGirl May 2018 #40
That is indeed a major claim to fame. byronius May 2018 #11
I'd bet DU has many descendants of the earliest Afro-European settlers DemocracyMouse May 2018 #25
So you got all the uppity genes, I'l bet! WhiteTara May 2018 #42
The real claim to fame is WhiteTara May 2018 #33
I loved the Ozarks when I was a kid. Gorgeous. byronius May 2018 #36
that's three things trump knows NOTHING about spanone May 2018 #2
You are correct! nature-lover May 2018 #13
That's because the copies in his hotel rooms all seem to be water damaged ProudLib72 May 2018 #44
Can't approve your notes, Packman, but I confess Hortensis May 2018 #3
Careful, that's the wingnut-annotated version the whackadoodle Bundy clan uses. trotsky May 2018 #28
Nice catch grantcart May 2018 #41
Great idea! procon May 2018 #5
Packman: I too have been guilty of vandalism SCantiGOP May 2018 #6
Wow, that's over the top. DemoHack May 2018 #8
ME-ANGRY-HELL NO packman May 2018 #16
When I'm bored in hotels... DemoHack May 2018 #24
*snort* sandensea May 2018 #37
I usually "liberate" whatever "literature"... NeoGreen May 2018 #9
That's an awesome sticker. byronius May 2018 #12
Right on! A danger to oneself - and our children sandensea May 2018 #15
That's the truth! Duppers May 2018 #29
You're a brave soul, Duppers. sandensea May 2018 #35
bibles for kindling kiri May 2018 #19
I now have a new slogan!... NeoGreen May 2018 #20
Very clever! BigmanPigman May 2018 #22
They day this is what we find under hotel room night tables sandensea May 2018 #14
I lost count of how many of the offensive tomes wound up in the trash when I was niyad May 2018 #17
But not state or commercial propaganda? LanternWaste May 2018 #18
i'm in Philly right now barbtries May 2018 #21
Can we start a "Gideon's Democracy" society? lagomorph777 May 2018 #23
LOL, you should leave a note about how black folks were considered 3/5ths of a person...nt ExciteBike66 May 2018 #26
From Wiki.. Duppers May 2018 #30
That's great! Most people have read those. nt Honeycombe8 May 2018 #38
Why would finding a Bible in a hotel make someone angry? IluvPitties May 2018 #45
It doesn't inspire anger DFW May 2018 #46
Because Christian dominionists broke separation of church and state sharedvalues May 2018 #47
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