Re: What Happened to The 56 Men Who Signed the Declarationof Independence ?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:09:59 CDT, Dennis Henderson said:

> Such two dimensional thinkin big V....
>                  Thus pressed, Lincoln staked a large part of his 1864
> presidential campaign on a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery
> uniformly throughout the United States. Lincoln's campaign was bolstered by
> separate votes in both Maryland and Missouri to abolish slavery in those
> states. Maryland's new constitution abolishing slavery took effect in
> November 1864.

Please re-read Article 5 of the US Constitution, and point out where the
President has anything to do with amendments.  That's reserved to Congress
and the various state legislatures (and presumably Dick Cheney in his
not-an-executive-branch role).

"Lincoln freed the slaves" is right up there with "Al Gore invented the
Internet", for basically the same reasons.  In both cases, they merely acted
as enablers for somebody *else* to actually do it.

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