Jesse Jackson Says Tea Partiers Are All Neo-Confederates, Like "Jeff Davis," Wanting Limited Federal Government Is A "Civil War Struggle"

Anyone that knows the history of the Constitution understands that the Tenth Amendment was never meant to be overturned by any later amendment. Jesse Jackson needs a history lesson. Everyone involved in the Civil War understood and respected the idea embodied by the Tenth Amendment. The Civil War had more specifically to do with the right of a State to secession, largely in that case over slavery, not just "State's rights" as a general matter. The Tenth Amendment stands for the proposition that the federal government is one of enumerated and defined powers with the rest being reserved to the people and the States. That has never been abandoned, and understanding and calling for adherence to this most basic of Constitutional principles does not make one a neo-Confederate follower of Jefferson Davis. Jesse Jackson represents nothing more than the utterly and completely inaccurate absurdities of a historical ignoramus.


‎"[T]hat the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country." - Rep. John Bingham, primary draftsman of the 14th Amendment, 1866

"That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend." - Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 1861 Tweet