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To: dwills
yes, i'm calling enthusiastic participants in rebellion at that time traitors

Here we go again.

You might, before passing a deadly judgment on your own ancestors, try to learn a little about their cause first, and about the legality of secession under the Tenth Amendment -- or even, the legality of secession above the Tenth Amendment, since it was a sovereign act of the People of each State, who by seceding merely reclaimed that which had been delegated, and which they had never lost or given up the right to reclaim.

50 posted on 02/26/2004 3:49:39 AM PST by lentulusgracchus (Et praeterea caeterum censeo, delenda est Carthago. -- M. Porcius Cato)
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To: lentulusgracchus
[I]t was a sovereign act of the People of each State, who by seceding merely reclaimed that which had been delegated, and which they had never lost or given up the right to reclaim

Bump.

56 posted on 02/26/2004 5:12:04 AM PST by 4CJ (||) OUR sins put Him on that cross - HIS love for us kept Him there. (||)
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To: lentulusgracchus
well said!

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1,062 posted on 03/20/2004 9:48:22 AM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
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