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Coordination problems, budgets, and where the slaves came from disagree. For a very long time, you needed to force people to work in conditions we'd call slavery today to get any real infrastructure done, because it would require keeping a massive labor force on task for years, and was...

The original Klan was also a spectacular merger of cult behavior and multi-level-marketing operation made as a get-rich-quick scheme. "Just Following Orders" was, and in quite a few places still is, a perfectly valid legal defense. When Le Natsees were prosecuted over what they did, they were...

There's some technicalities as, IIRC, the ruling before Reconstruction was that it was required to have similar clauses in the state constitution, rather than the federal constitution being directly binding to the states.

The line was crossed with Reconstruction forcing a good number of unrelated matters and attempting to force cultural submission, as the federal government was established by the original writing and interpretation of the Constitution to hold sole authority over foreign affairs, something even...