Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. today issued a statement strongly criticizing Texas governor Rick Perry’s support of the Tenth Amendment.
From a statement:
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Truer words or more faithful ideas could not have been attributed to Confederate President Jefferson Davis or his Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stevens. After all, it was the Tenth Amendment and states’ rights that protected the institution of slavery. The words ‘slave’ or ‘slavery’ did not appear in the Constitution. The institution of slavery, the Tenth Amendment and states’ rights are joined at the hip.
Just days earlier Rev. Al Sharpton made a similar accusation on his MSNBC program.
