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Greg Pride |
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Tough on South, Blacks
few rights, President Rec., State |
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| Greg Pride is a constitutional scholar who views
almost everything through a legalistic lens. What to do about Reconstruction is simple.
Just read the Constitution. Individual Southern States committed suicide when conventions
there voted for secession. Individuals in these states are now like free floating
particles, unattached to the country. Only the President, using his power of the pardon,
has the right to return them and the separate states they make up to the Union. Once in
the union, the states and not the federal government should control matters of voting,
education and welfare. Accepting that premise leads to another, that blacks are entitled
to no special rights that states are unwilling to grant them. Only an Amendment to the
constitution can change that fact. |
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Readings based on Beliefs: |
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Belief 2 - Difficult for the
South to get back into the Union and pardons should be difficult to secure |
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Belief 4 - Freedmen and free
blacks should receive few political, economic and social rights |
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Belief 6 -The President should
control Reconstruction |
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Belief 8 - Reconstruction
should be organized and implemented on a state level |
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