http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/disunion-a-moment-of-unintentional-candor/ remembering freedom for the slaves ... Tue, 14 May 2013 02:27:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/disunion-a-moment-of-unintentional-candor/#comment-77 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:14:04 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=390#comment-77 Hi Margaret. A good point. Perhaps this is why Jefferson Davis said later that the Confederacy “Had died of a theory.”

]]> http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/disunion-a-moment-of-unintentional-candor/#comment-75 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:14:16 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=390#comment-75 One of the biggest factors behind the drive to abandon the Article of Confederation and replace it with what became the US Constitution was the need to give the national government independent revenue generating powers instead of asking the states for money (generally to little response) as they had under the Articles.

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