I thought that plenty of states that had constitutions that WERE NOT designed to keep a black person from becoming governor also had similarly elected down ballot state offices?

I thought the Citadel was initially created, in part, so there would be a militar contingent available should there be a slave uprising…it is fine school today with some problems like any other college or university – but is that any reason to rip the place down?

Well probably no need because there isn’t some power hungry school administrator (govenor) trying to blame the problems he is having with the rest of the factulty (general assembly) on anything but himself?

If the article was based on some research they would have found that several other states (many southern) have more restrictive constitutions than ours, any FYI the fear was not of a black governor, but a carpetbagger northern governor. But I appreciate the more inflammatory version, hopefully it will get more people behind Sanford’s “restructuing” (i.e. give me more power) initiative.

Probably one of the slowest going governments in the nation is the Texas governor’s office where the government runs on auto pilot and legislators (at least until the past few years) met only ever other year for general session. Can you image what kind of a do-do bird you could place in the Tx. gov.’s mansion and make him look like presidentail timber…hmmm…let me ponder that one for a bit.

Could you imagine not wholly scrapping a constitution that had any reference to racial animus in it. Like say for instance 3/5 of a vote per slave?