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Originally Posted by MisterPeabody
Welll, saying slavery was "legal" is really a red herring here Doc, sorry. A State can make ANYTHING "legal" - "Kill every firstborn son" for example - but if a "higher court" decides to side with the "law" what then? Courts can be bought and paid for, too. Look at Clarence thomas, the shit he's been doing for over twenty years. In another time a Supreme Court Justice would resign over something like this (and for far, far less) but NOW? Fuck it man. The State owns everything - the media, the courts, the Congress, everything.
What i'm saying is, THIS Supreme Court would probably rule that Slavery was still "legal". LOL So saying we have to follow laws like that is ridiculous. Just sayin'.
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The higher courts did rule it legal... slave trade was even taxed, legally, even before the Constitution and after, it's actually one of the very few 100% legal taxable items we have, it was that kind of legal, as in a right to own that 'property.'
It was legal for 10,000+ years, before it became illegal.