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  • January 28, 2007 at 2:40 pm #543 Reply
    Phidippides
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    I'm wondering if there's a single grand social/political/moral lesson that we can learn from the Civil War.  Or, if there's not a single greatest lesson, what are a few important ones?

    January 28, 2007 at 7:39 pm #8041 Reply
    DonaldBaker
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    Don't let a problem fester by trying to patch it up with clever compromises.  Slavery should have been removed from this nation during the Constitutional Convention rather than implementing the 3/5 Compromise.  Henry Clay's compromises only delayed the inevitable as well.  Of course there are many other lessons as well, but I think this one could have prevented the war from ever happening in the first place.

    February 13, 2007 at 3:32 am #8042 Reply
    Phidippides
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    That's a good idea.  But do we apply it only to civil/human rights or across the board to other policies as well?  With some issues compromise is the only solution.  Where's the line that we draw between compromise or holding to principle?

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