Statements Related to The US Civil War was a mistake because other countries did not have civil wars to end slavery

• The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not have proportionate representation of its member countries (1+/0- justifications)
• Senator Franken submitted an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that forbids defense contractors from forcing employees to arbitrate claims arising out of a civil rights violation or any tort related to or arising out of sexual assault or harassment, including assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, or negligent hiring, supervision, or retention (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama is winding down the war in Iraq (1+/0- justifications)
• The world will not end in 2012 (1+/0- justifications)
• US involvement in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is now as large as the Vietnam war (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama has not kept his promise to end federal grants to strictly religious organizations (1+/0- justifications)
• The President of the US is not liable for civil damages resulting from any official action while in office (1+/0- justifications)
• Ron Paul thinks the US Civil War was a mistake because other countries did not have civil wars to end slavery (1+/0- justifications)
• Ron Paul wants to end public education (1+/1- justifications)
• The US Civil War was not fought to end slavery (3+/2- justifications)
• The US Civil War was fought to return the seceded confederate territory to the Union (0+/0- justifications)
• Southern states were allowed to maintain the status quo of slavery (0+/0- justifications)
• Only newly created states would not be allowed to have slavery (0+/0- justifications)
• The world has come close to nuclear war (2+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was abolition of slavery (7+/1- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was states' rights (0+/2- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was southern opposition to economic protectionism (0+/1- justifications)
• Confederate leaders who later claimed that states' rights were the cause of the US civil war had claimed before the war that slavery was the cause (1+/0- justifications)
• Drone warfare is causing a revolution in how humans fight wars (1+/0- justifications)
• George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld purposefully kept hundreds of innocent people in Guantanamo because it would have harmed their careers to admit their mistake (1+/0- justifications)
• Texas declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The Georgia declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The Mississippi declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The South Carolina declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The slave-holding states explicitly and solely relied upon their fear of the abolition of slavery as justification for their secession (6+/0- justifications)
• Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said that slavery was the chief cause of secession in his "Cornerstone Speech" given shortly before the war (1+/0- justifications)
• Slave-states feared that the abolition of slavery was nigh (0+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was not economic (1+/0- justifications)
• If the cause of the civil war had only been about economics, whites would not have had a reason to continue racism through Jim Crow laws (0+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was a disagreement about states' rights (1+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the civil war was a disagreement about only one state right, the right to hold people as property as slaves (0+/0- justifications)
• The United States' racism against minorities provides justification for other countries to criticize U.S. policies and sincerity towards democracy (1+/0- justifications)
• In June 2010 the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan surpassed the Vietnam war as the longest war in U.S. history (1+/0- justifications)
• Comparing U.S. educational system metrics to those in other countries is misleading (1+/0- justifications)
• George W. Bush increased the national debt by $5.1T in 8 years to fund the invasion of two countries that were unrelated to the 911 attacks and to fund tax cuts for the wealthy (1+/0- justifications)
• A black child who was born during slavery was more likely to be raised by both parents than a black child born during the twenty-first century (2+/1- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" was designed to secretly target minorities (1+/0- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" was designed to target minorities, despite the fact that whites are more likely than blacks to commit drug crimes (3+/0- justifications)
• The civil war was not about tariffs (1+/0- justifications)
• Countries should not donate food to African countries (1+/0- justifications)
• Donations of clothes to African countries destroy their local clothing industries (1+/0- justifications)
• Wealthy nations should not donate money to third-world countries except in the case of disasters where infrastructure can be easily replaced by aid (1+/0- justifications)
• Systemic aid to countries impedes their economic development (1+/0- justifications)
• The Soviet declaration of war on Japan caused Japan to surrender during World War II (1+/0- justifications)
• The atomic bomb did not cause Japan to surrender during World War II (1+/0- justifications)
• It is logical to sometimes place a comma or period outside of quotation marks at the end a sentence (1+/0- justifications)
• The US is owed close to as much as it owes other countries (1+/0- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" was a Pink person's political response to race riots (1+/0- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" began the explosion of the U.S. prison population (1+/0- justifications)