{"id":1492,"date":"2004-12-20T13:20:24","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T20:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/in-1956-they-were-southern-democrats-now-they-are-the-republican-base\/"},"modified":"2004-12-20T13:20:24","modified_gmt":"2004-12-20T20:20:24","slug":"in-1956-they-were-southern-democrats-now-they-are-the-republican-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/in-1956-they-were-southern-democrats-now-they-are-the-republican-base\/","title":{"rendered":"In 1956, they were Southern Democrats, now they are the Republican Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Southern Manifesto\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cviog.uga.edu\/Projects\/gainfo\/manifesto.htm\">Southern Manifesto<\/a> 1956<\/p>\n<p>We regard the decision of the Supreme Court in the school cases as <b>a clear abuse of judicial power<\/b>. It climaxes a trend in the Federal <b>judiciary undertaking to legislate<\/b>, in derogation of the authority of Congress, and to encroach upon the reserved rights of the States and the people. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the Supreme Court of the United States, with no legal basis for such action, undertook to <b>exercise their naked judicial power<\/b> and substituted their personal political and social ideas for the established law of the land.<\/p>\n<p><b>This unwarranted exercise of power by the Court<\/b>, contrary to the Constitution, is creating chaos and confusion&#8230;. inflamed by outside meddlers&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>We commend the motives of those States which have declared the intention to <b>resist forced integration<\/b> by any lawful means. . . . We pledge ourselves to use all lawful means to <b>bring about a reversal of this decision<\/b> [which brought equality to more Americans].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Manifesto 1956 We regard the decision of the Supreme Court in the school cases as a clear abuse of judicial power. It climaxes a trend in the Federal judiciary undertaking to legislate, in derogation of the authority of Congress, and to encroach upon the reserved rights of the States and the people. &#8230; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/in-1956-they-were-southern-democrats-now-they-are-the-republican-base\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In 1956, they were Southern Democrats, now they are the Republican Base<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}