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Coldwater Journal is a record of personal observations and reflections from visits to the Coldwater campus.
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2008
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Friday, 4.25.08
Spring Green
(Coldwater) Coldwater is intensely green today, so green I almost squint. The labyrinth lawn and the great willow are neon spring green. Green is the color of the heart chakra and the color of money in America. There are 248 words in American-English for money.
Coldwater is the last, the one and only, natural spring still flowing in Hennepin County.
-S.J.
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Tuesday 03.04.08
Dred Scott in Minnesota
(Coldwater) In the Dred Scott decision, Minnesota played a part in the cultural battle against slavery in the United States. Like the war on terrorism and "just war" debates raging now, the great slave debate divided the nation, divided families, and was as much about finances as ethics.
In 1857, 151-years ago on March 6, Dred Scott was found to be "not a person." This finding by the Supreme Court of the United States was boo-ed and ridiculed inside the country and abroad. Like the "illegal aliens" of today, the "enemy combatants" and the extradited and disappeared, slaves had no legal standing.
Dred Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom in 1846. After an eleven year court battle Scott, Harriet, his wife and mother of their daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, lost their freedom case. The high court found that Scott was ineligible to bring his case for freedom from slavery into the federal court system. Dred Scott, 62, was found to be a slave, "not a person," and therefore had no personhood rights in the federal courts.
In 2008 corporations are considered "persons" under the law...
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