The Civil War And the Constitution, 1859-1865 2

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The Civil War And the Constitution, 1859-1865 2
John William Burgess
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vote for proper laws for the punishment of citizens of one ** State " inyading another and stirring up insurrec- tion, or for aiding and abetting in the same ; and that he disapproved of all " State '' legislation in contraven- tion of the acts of Congress required by the Constitu- tion for the execution of the provision for the rendition of fugitive slaves. The other Bepublicans considered these propositions to be quite generous, but the South- erners regarded them so slightly as to affirm tha
...t the Republicans never indicated by word or sign any con- cession which they would be willing to make.
The historians and publicists are bound to say that Mr. Seward's propositions were not only generous, but, upon one point, too generous. An irrepeal- able, unamendable provision in a Constitu- Mr. Seward's tion in regard to anything is a rotten spot, p'^'p***"**'*^ which threatens decay to the whole Constitution. It is a standing menace to the peaceable development of any political system. It is the most direct contradiction pos- sible of one of the most fundamental principles of politi- cal science, the principle that the amending power in a constitution, the legally organized sovereign power in the political system of a country, must bit able to deal with Digits 45205711 100 THE CIVIL WAR any and every subject.


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