Pentagon Wants Public’s Help To Rename Bases Honoring Confederates

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Franklin Pierce said:
The Department of Defense is seeking the public’s help in coming up with replacement names for the military bases currently named after Confederate leaders.

The naming commission, which was created earlier this year to look into the topic, launched a new website on Monday, asking for “interested citizens” to provide recommendations and suggestions for alternatives.

This eight-person commission is assessing renaming nine Army posts, including Fort Bragg, Fort Hood, and Fort Lee. They are still deliberating whether they should also change the name of the Army’s Fort Belvoir in Virginia, a name that came from a former slave plantation, and two Navy ships.

The Commission on the Naming of Items of the Department of Defense that Commemorate the Confederate States of America or Any Person Who Served Voluntarily with the Confederate States of America, which is led by Adm. Michelle Howard of the U.S. Navy, has to provide the House and Senate Armed Services Committees a report listing the identified assets and the cost to rename them by Oct. 1, 2022.

Pentagon wants public’s help to rename bases honoring Confederates
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Change Fort Lee to Fort Yeet?
 
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TNVOLNAVY said:
Yet there’s a memorial in DC for a former president who was a POS and the worst tyrant in American history.
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Yet there are statues of a man, and streets and schools named after a man who, at a minimum, cheered on the rape of a woman in a hotel room, and plagiarized his doctoral thesis.
 
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Dumbass, it wasn’t a rebellion. It was a peaceful separation until the Union turned it violent.
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Weren't the first shots fired by Confederates?

I prefer Andrew Jackson's response to John C. Calhoun when he threatened succession 3 decades earlier. He ordered him seized and hung if he didn't retract the threat. Calhoun backed down.

No right to succession in the Constitution.
 
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WBO said:
Weren't the first shots fired by Confederates?

I prefer Andrew Jackson's response to John C. Calhoun when he threatened succession 3 decades earlier. He ordered him seized and hung if he didn't retract the threat. Calhoun backed down.

No right to succession in the Constitution.
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There's also no right to a federal takeover in the Constitution, but that didn't stop it. Think about the difference between The United States of America and The Federal Republic of America.
 
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WBO said:
Weren't the first shots fired by Confederates?

I prefer Andrew Jackson's response to John C. Calhoun when he threatened succession 3 decades earlier. He ordered him seized and hung if he didn't retract the threat. Calhoun backed down.

No right to succession in the Constitution.
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Nullification, not succession.
 
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WBO said:
Haven't noticed that clause either. Is this some kind of conceptual argument.
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Nullification Crisis, in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former’s attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832. The resolution of the nullification crisis in favour of the federal government helped to undermine the nullification doctrine, the constitutional theory that upheld the right of states to nullify federal acts within their boundaries.

Doctrine of nullification and the “Tariff of Abominations”

The doctrine of nullification had been advocated by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798–99. The union was a compact of sovereign states, Jefferson asserted, and the federal government was their agent with certain specified, delegated powers. The states retained the authority to determine when the federal government exceeded its powers, and they could declare acts to be “void and of no force” in their jurisdictions.

Nullification crisis | Significance, Cause, President, & States Rights
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
Nullification Crisis, in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former’s attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832. The resolution of the nullification crisis in favour of the federal government helped to undermine the nullification doctrine, the constitutional theory that upheld the right of states to nullify federal acts within their boundaries.

Doctrine of nullification and the “Tariff of Abominations”

The doctrine of nullification had been advocated by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798–99. The union was a compact of sovereign states, Jefferson asserted, and the federal government was their agent with certain specified, delegated powers. The states retained the authority to determine when the federal government exceeded its powers, and they could declare acts to be “void and of no force” in their jurisdictions.

Nullification crisis | Significance, Cause, President, & States Rights
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We should probably just rename "Federal government" "Feral government" because it is definitely out of control.
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
Nullification Crisis, in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former’s attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832. The resolution of the nullification crisis in favour of the federal government helped to undermine the nullification doctrine, the constitutional theory that upheld the right of states to nullify federal acts within their boundaries.

Doctrine of nullification and the “Tariff of Abominations”

The doctrine of nullification had been advocated by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798–99. The union was a compact of sovereign states, Jefferson asserted, and the federal government was their agent with certain specified, delegated powers. The states retained the authority to determine when the federal government exceeded its powers, and they could declare acts to be “void and of no force” in their jurisdictions.

Nullification crisis | Significance, Cause, President, & States Rights
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So concept, absent some cases from almost 200 years ago.

Don't think you're going to find the 21st Century Supreme Court buying this one, even one this conservative. The Jefferson/ Madison writings were discussion and attempts to influence the government. If they had been able to get this into the Constitution, it would be there, and it's not.

Would not expect that to be something the Convention would approve of especially since the Constitution was adopted after the failure of the Articles of Confederation. Madison and Jefferson were very much against a powerful centralized government, but they weren't a majority and New England wanted a strong government to support their sea trade.

Besides, Jefferson basically throws that away with the Louisiana Purchase, the ultimate big government action of its time.
 
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Supreme Court punts on challenge to North Carolina nixing Confederate flag license plates

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The Supreme Court declined to review North Carolina 's decision to cease issuing license plates displaying the Confederate flag on Monday.

The nine justices did not comment on their decision not to hear the case, which challenged the state's decision. The dispute marked one of many cases the high court declined to review on Monday.


In 2021, North Carolina decided to stop issuing specialty license plates bearing the insignia of the North Carolina chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. That chapter sued, saying the decision violated state and federal law.

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Supreme Court punts on challenge to North Carolina nixing Confederate flag license plates
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
Supreme Court punts on challenge to North Carolina nixing Confederate flag license plates

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The Supreme Court declined to review North Carolina 's decision to cease issuing license plates displaying the Confederate flag on Monday.

The nine justices did not comment on their decision not to hear the case, which challenged the state's decision. The dispute marked one of many cases the high court declined to review on Monday.


In 2021, North Carolina decided to stop issuing specialty license plates bearing the insignia of the North Carolina chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. That chapter sued, saying the decision violated state and federal law.

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Supreme Court punts on challenge to North Carolina nixing Confederate flag license plates
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And you guys wonder why you can't even get 20% of the black vote.

Clueless, but thank you for constantly reinforcing a Democratic constituency. Anyone who says that has no effect is nothing short of an idiot.
 
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WBO said:
And you guys wonder why you can't even get 20% of the black vote.

Clueless, but thank you for constantly reinforcing a Democratic constituency. Anyone who says that has no effect is nothing short of an idiot.
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Are some people indoctrinated to the terror of white bed sheets, too? There's not a person alive who was personally affected by slavery in the US; absolute BS.
 
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