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Free political speech is constitutionally protected by the First Amendment. Slave holders forfeited their property rights in slaves when they attempted to overturn the democratic result of the 1860 election by rebelling against the federal government. Their slaves thereby became contraband of war.
I do not believe our elected officials should be able to ration our political speech.
....ok. My point was that the need to give freedom to all men (of all races) in this country was obvious, and the other side's argument was that they had the right to own slaves and it wasn't the government's place to decide what and who they could and couldn't own. The need to protect the right of a man to own a slave was nowhere near as important as the need to protect a man's right to be free and you can't have it both ways. Today, we are steadily losing our system of freely electing officials because of the efforts of men with enormous wealth. It is obvious that we need to protect our democracy. You can repeat yourself all you want. But, unless you believe that we can allow both individuals and corporations to donate as much as they want to individual candidates, parties and PACs, AND that this will not result in the loss of the free democratic election as we have always known it, then I don't know why you're even bothering to comment.