Was the Fugitive Slave Act a violation of state's rights?

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Of course it was, but I doubt you care:

For too long have you relied upon like a crutch that decrepit Reaganist mantra - states' rights!

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Of course it was, but I doubt you care:

For too long have you relied upon like a crutch that decrepit Reaganist mantra - states' rights!

Of course I don't, because states' rights has not historically been an individualist position: I am concerned with individual rights, not states' rights. But pointing out the obvious and unending hypocrisy of conservatives who pretend to champion both has long been a forte of mine, and it will continue for the foreseeable future.

And what conservative has defended the Fugutive Slave Act that would warrant such a label of hypocrisy?

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Of course it was, but I doubt you care:

For too long have you relied upon like a crutch that decrepit Reaganist mantra - states' rights!

Of course I don't, because states' rights has not historically been an individualist position: I am concerned with individual rights, not states' rights. But pointing out the obvious and unending hypocrisy of conservatives who pretend to champion both has long been a forte of mine, and it will continue for the foreseeable future.

And what conservative has defended the Fugutive Slave Act that would warrant such a label of hypocrisy?

I don't know. What's say we get Libertas' perspective on the issue?

Do you have a quote of him supporting the Fugutive SLave Act, or are you just pulling accusations out of your ass?

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Of course it was a violation of states' rights, but to claim that the Fugitive Slave Act justified Lincoln's Tariff War is laughable.

If anything it might have given the North justification to secede.

Exactly, and that possibility was advocated by many abolitionists at the time.