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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (35385)	5/8/2009 3:19:05 AM
From: RMF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) of 71588

As I just said to a previous poster, WHEN do you think slavery would have been abolished if we had depended on the "Amendment Process" to get it done if not for the Civil War?? 1890, 1910, perhaps... Like you say, the Supreme Court of the 19th Century wasn't into "changing" things without amendments from Congress and I don't think Congress would have been able to find the needed votes for that amendment during the late 1800's. You may think that slavery was a "good" thing, but I don't. I would have PREFERRED an "activist" court in the Dred Scott decision rather than the one that ruled in that case. Doesn't a "little bit" of you think that an "activist" court might have been a good thing in the Dred Scott case?

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