The adventures of a middle aged law student

Thursday, May 23, 2013

genocide, slavery and Solomon

"Humanity must bewail the course which is pursued, whatever may be the decision of policy."  John Marshall speaking of the Cherokee nation dilemma, approximately 1830.

Once a societal wrong has been committed and sustained, within less than a generation there are so many countervailing interests and good faith reliance on the status quo that unwinding the ball of yarn  becomes a case not dissimilar to Solomon's baby.


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