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Mississippi Outlaws Slavery

PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:50 am
by saxitoxin
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery, was ratified in 1865. Mississippi voted to ratify the amendment in 1995 but failed to make it official by notifying the U.S. Archivist.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-575 ... d-slavery/

Re: Mississippi Outlaws Slavery

PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:52 am
by DoomYoshi
What an amendment to have an error in filing


What a quote

Re: Mississippi Outlaws Slavery

PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:56 am
by saxitoxin
DoomYoshi wrote:What a quote




In a statement given to a sergeant with the Wharton County Sheriff’s Office, Andrew Mendoza, 29, waived his assorted rights and told of a late night encounter with a brown horse. “I was trying to make the horse have a baby,” Mendoza explained. “I was thinking it would have a horseman baby.”

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/hor ... aby-687431

PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:58 am
by 2dimes
Centaur FTW!!!

Re: Mississippi Outlaws Slavery

PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:23 pm
by jonesthecurl
saxitoxin wrote:
DoomYoshi wrote:What a quote




In a statement given to a sergeant with the Wharton County Sheriff’s Office, Andrew Mendoza, 29, waived his assorted rights and told of a late night encounter with a brown horse. “I was trying to make the horse have a baby,” Mendoza explained. “I was thinking it would have a horseman baby.”

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/hor ... aby-687431


He got off cos he claimed it was pony-and-trapment.

Re: Mississippi Outlaws Slavery

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:36 am
by Funkyterrance
No kittens vote? Oops, I forgot about your aversion to babies.

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Re: Mississippi Outlaws Slavery

PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 8:21 pm
by notyou2
I'm surprised they found someone who could write the amendment let alone file it.

Re: Mississippi Outlaws Slavery

PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:49 pm
by PLAYER57832
Mississippi never did ratify the amendment... some claim it was an "error", but others call it a "statement".

Regardless, the amendment did become part of the constitution and is part of the law of the land.. even in Mississippi.


(ps.. better be careful Saxi, or you might be accused of listening to NPR ;) )

Re: Mississippi Outlaws Slavery

PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:30 pm
by notyou2
He quotes CBC all the time which is very similar in many respects to NPR.