• @njm1314
    link
    English
    23 months ago

    Well yes and no. That’s certainly the rhetoric they used. They like to say they didn’t like a strong federal government. But the original poster was correct in that they really wanted a very strong federal government in regards to pursuing slaves. The Confederacy was also very much in favor of a very strong federal government when they created their government. The makeup of the Confederacy had a lot of strong federal powers. More so than the US government in some ways. It just really comes down to them being Hypocrites. Like in most things.

    • @PugJesusM
      link
      English
      63 months ago

      They wanted a strong Federal government when it suited them, and a weak Federal government when it suited them. It wasn’t a matter of a general principle - it came down to economic interests, and the economic interests of the South were built almost exclusively around slavery. The Confederacy was more centralized in some ways - such as the absolute prohibition against states’ rights to regulate slavery - but in others, it was weak, such as the right of individual states to nullify Federal (or, rather, Confederal?) officers in their state.

      • @barsquid
        link
        English
        63 months ago

        They wanted a strong Federal government when it suited them, and a weak Federal government when it suited them.

        Sounds familiar. Regressives just being themselves.